The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 45
About noon the robbers returned to their cave, and saw Cassim’s mules roving about with great chests on their backs.
Who acts: noon, mules · What happens: return, see, rove · To what, where: mules
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 (noon, mules), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 noon | advmod |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 12 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mules | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Cassim | case |
| 14 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | roving | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mules | acl |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 roving | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 chests | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chests | amod |
| 19 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roving | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 backs | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 backs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chests | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | noon | to robbers's cave result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | noon not said here | Cassim's mules | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rove | gerund | Cassim's mules not said here | with great chests on robbers's backs; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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