The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 47

Cassim, who had heard the trampling of their horses’ feet, resolved to sell his life dearly, so when the door opened he leaped out and threw the Captain down.

Who acts: Cassim, door, feet · What happens: hear, resolve, sell, open, leap out, throw down · To what, where: trampling, feet, life, Captain

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, feet), 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	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Cassim	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trampling	det
7	trampling	trampling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 feet	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feet	nmod:poss
11	’	's	PART	_	10 horses	case
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trampling	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 resolved	punct
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 feet	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sell	mark
16	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 resolved	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sell	obj
19	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	16 sell	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 opened	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 opened	advmod
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 opened	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 opened	nsubj
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leaped	nsubj
27	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 opened	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 leaped	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 opened	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Captain	det
32	Captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obj
33	down	down	ADV	_	30 threw	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Cassim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Cassim	the trampling of mules's horses's feet		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trampling=Stimulus
2	resolve	participle		mules's horses's feet not said here		tree rules
3	sell	to-infinitive		Cassim's life	dearly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	open	past	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leap out	participle	Cassim			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw down	past	the door not said here	the Captain	down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme
7	trample		mules's horses's feet			nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=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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