The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 42

Instead of “Sesame,” he said: “Open, Barley!” and the door remained fast.

Who acts: Cassim, door · What happens: say, remain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cassim, door), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	_	4 Sesame	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sesame	case
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sesame	punct
4	Sesame	sesame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Sesame	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sesame	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Open	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Open	punct
11	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Barley	punct
13	Barley	Barley	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Open	appos
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Barley	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 Open	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remained	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remained	nsubj
19	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 remained	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cassim					of Sesame	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past	the door					fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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