The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 60
Morgiana, meanwhile, sought an apothecary and asked him for some lozenges.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: seek, ask · To what, where: apothecary, Cassim
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 (Morgiana), 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 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Morgiana | punct |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 sought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meanwhile | punct |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 apothecary | det |
| 7 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 lozenges | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 lozenges | det |
| 13 | lozenges | lozenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Morgiana | a apothecary | meanwhile property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apothecary=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Morgiana not said here | Cassim | for some lozenges | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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