The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 56
The door was opened by the slave Morgiana, whom he knew to be both brave and cunning.
Who acts: slave, Cassim · What happens: open, know, be · To what, where: door, slave · 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 (slave, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 slave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slave | det |
| 7 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 8 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slave | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knew | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slave | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 brave | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brave | cop |
| 15 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 brave | cc:preconj |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cunning | cc |
| 18 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brave | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the slave | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Cassim | the slave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | brave property | tree rules |
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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