The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 48
In vain, however, for the robbers with their sabres soon killed him.
What happens: kill · To what, where: captain, vain
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 killed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 vain | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 killed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 robbers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robbers | det |
| 8 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sabres | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sabres | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sabres | sabre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 robbers | nmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 killed | advmod |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | captain | vain | for the robbers with robbers's sabres; however, soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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