The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 4
He was afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety.
Who acts: Baba, men · What happens: be, climb · To what, where: robbers, tree
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 robbers | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 robbers | cop |
| 6 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 climbed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 climbed | cc |
| 9 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 safety | case |
| 14 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Baba | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | men = man | robbers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | a tree | for safety | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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