The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 49
On entering the cave they saw all the bags laid ready, and could not imagine how anyone had got in without knowing their secret.
Who acts: sabres, bags, anyone · What happens: enter, see, lay, not imagine, get in, know · To what, where: cave, secret · 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 (sabres, bags, anyone), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cave | det |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cave | acl:relcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 bags | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bags | det |
| 9 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laid | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 imagine | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagine | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 imagine | advmod |
| 16 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 got | advmod |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 got | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 imagine | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 knowing | mark |
| 23 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 got | advcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 secret | nmod:poss |
| 25 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knowing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sabres = sabre | the cave not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | all bags | ready property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not imagine | could | sabres = sabre not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get in | past · perfect | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | know | gerund | anyone not said here | sabres's secret | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |
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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