The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 50

They cut Cassim’s body into four quarters, and nailed them up inside the cave, in order to frighten anyone who should venture in, and went away in search of more treasure.

Who acts: sabres · What happens: cut, nail up, frighten, venture, go away, search · To what, where: body, four quarters, sabres, cave, anyone, search

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 body	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Cassim	case
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 quarters	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 quarters	nummod
8	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nailed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nailed	cc
11	nailed	nail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nailed	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 nailed	compound:prt
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 cave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cave	det
16	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nailed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 frighten	punct
18	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 frighten	mark
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 in	fixed
20	to	to	PART	_	21 frighten	mark
21	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nailed	advcl
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 frighten	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 venture	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 venture	aux
25	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 anyone	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 venture	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 search	case
32	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 treasure	case
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 treasure	amod
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 search	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	past	sabres = sabre	Cassim's body	four quarters		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent body=Material into quarter=Product
2	nail up	past	sabres = sabre not said here	sabres = sabre	the cave		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	frighten	to-infinitive	sabres = sabre not said here	anyone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer
4	venture	should					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	go away	past	sabres = sabre not said here		search of more treasure	away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
6	search			more treasure			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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