The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 54
Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home.
Who acts: Cassim · What happens: put, cover, return · To what, where: body, other two
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), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horror | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 horror | case |
| 3 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 horror | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 asses | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 asses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bags | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bags | cc |
| 16 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bags | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 two | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 two | amod |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 returned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 returned | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 returned | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 covering | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 fagots | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 fagots | det |
| 30 | fagots | fagot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 covering | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 covering | punct |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 returned | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Cassim | the body | the other two | of Full horror; on one of Cassim's asses; bags of gold obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme on one=Destination | ||
| 2 | cover | gerund | with some fagots; all property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fagot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Cassim not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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