The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 55
He drove the two asses laden with gold into his own yard, and led the other to Cassim’s house.
Who acts: Cassim · What happens: drive, lade, lead · To what, where: two asses, other, house
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 asses | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 asses | nummod |
| 5 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drove | obj |
| 6 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asses | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laden | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 yard | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 yard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 yard | amod |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laden | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 led | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Cassim | case |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Cassim | the two asses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | the two asses not said here | with gold; into Cassim's own yard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | Cassim not said here | the other | Cassim's house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme to house=Destination |
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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