The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 64
The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread.
Who acts: day, town · What happens: go, open, put, follow · To what, where: stall, piece, hand, bade
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 (day, town), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 Morgiana | case |
| 4 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cobbler | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cobbler | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cobbler | amod |
| 9 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gates | det |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cobbler | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gates | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 town | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stall | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 opened | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piece | det |
| 24 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piece | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 follow | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 follow | cc |
| 32 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 follow | obl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bade | obj |
| 34 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 follow | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 needle | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 needle | nmod:poss |
| 38 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 follow | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thread | cc |
| 40 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 needle | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the day after Morgiana | to a old cobbler near the gates of the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cobbler=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the town | cobbler's stall | early property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stall=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the day after Morgiana not said here | a piece of gold | cobbler's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Destination | |||
| 4 | follow | present | the day after Morgiana not said here | bade | with cobbler's needle and thread | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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