The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 5

When they came up to him and dismounted, he counted forty of them.

Who acts: men, Baba · What happens: come up, dismount, count · To what, where: Baba, forty

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 (men, Baba), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 counted	advcl
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dismounted	cc
8	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 counted	nsubj
11	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 counted	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forty	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come up	past	men = man		Baba	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	dismount	past	men = man not said here			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	count	past	Baba	forty of men		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forty=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/5/