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The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 46

This gave them the alarm; they drew their sabres, and went to the door, which opened on their Captain’s saying: “Open, Sesame!”

Who acts: This, mules, door, Captain · What happens: give, draw, go, open, say · To what, where: alarm, mules, sabres, saying · 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 (This, mules, door, Captain), 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

nsubjiobjdetobjpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjpunctccconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctpunctparataxispunctconjpunctpunctrootThisPRONgaveVERBthemPRONtheDETalarmNOUN;PUNCTtheyPRONdrewVERBtheirPRONsabresNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBtoADPtheDETdoorNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONopenedVERBonADPtheirPRONCaptainPROPN’sPARTsayingNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTOpenADJ,PUNCTSesameNOUN!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 gavensubj
2gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 gaveiobj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 alarmdet
5alarmalarmNOUNNumber=Sing2 gaveobj
6;;PUNCT_8 drewpunct
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 drewnsubj
8drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gaveparataxis
9theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 sabresnmod:poss
10sabressabreNOUNNumber=Plur8 drewobj
11,,PUNCT_13 wentpunct
12andandCCONJ_13 wentcc
13wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 drewconj
14totoADP_16 doorcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 doordet
16doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing13 wentobl
17,,PUNCT_19 openedpunct
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 openednsubj
19openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 dooracl:relcl
20ononADP_24 sayingcase
21theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 Captainnmod:poss
22CaptainCaptainPROPNNumber=Sing24 sayingnmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 Captaincase
24sayingsayingNOUNNumber=Sing19 openedobl
25::PUNCT_27 Openpunct
26“"PUNCT_27 Openpunct
27OpenopenADJDegree=Pos13 wentparataxis
28,,PUNCT_29 Sesamepunct
29SesamesesameNOUNNumber=Sing27 Openconj
30!!PUNCT_27 Openpunct
31”"PUNCT_2 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastThisthe alarmmules = mulevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alarm=Theme
2drawpastmules = mulemules's sabresvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme
3gopastmules = mule not said hereto the doorvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4openpastthe doormules's Captain's sayingvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saying=Location
5saymules's Captainnom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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