The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 43

He named several different sorts of grain, all but the right one, and the door still stuck fast.

Who acts: Cassim, all · What happens: name, one, sort · To what, where: several different sorts, grain

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, all), 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	2 named	nsubj
2	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorts	amod
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorts	amod
5	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 named	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grain	case
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorts	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	nsubj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grain	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stuck	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stuck	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stuck	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 stuck	advmod
19	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 named	parataxis
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 stuck	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	name	past	Cassim	several different sorts of grain but the right one	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
2	one		all		tree rules
3	sort			grain but the right one	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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