The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 57

Unloading the ass, he said to her: “This is the body of your master, who has been murdered, but whom we must bury as though he had died in his bed.

Who acts: Cassim, This, we · What happens: unload, say, be, murder, bury, die · To what, where: ass, Morgiana, body · 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 (Cassim, This, we), 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	Unloading	unload	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ass	det
3	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unloading	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unloading	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 body	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 body	punct
11	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 body	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 body	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 body	det
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 master	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 body	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 murdered	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 murdered	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 murdered	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 murdered	aux:pass
22	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 body	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bury	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 bury	cc
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bury	obj
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 bury	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bury	aux
28	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
29	as	as	ADV	_	28 bury	advmod
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 died	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 died	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 died	aux
33	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 bury	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bed	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bed	nmod:poss
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 died	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	unload	gerund	Cassim not said here	the ass			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ass=Source
2	say speech: assert	past	Cassim		Morgiana		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	This	the body		of your master	tree rules
4	murder in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the body			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	bury in a quote	must	we				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
6	die in a quote	past · perfect	Cassim			in Cassim's bed	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute

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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