The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 65
Having bound his eyes with a handkerchief, she took him to the room where the body lay, pulled off the bandage, and bade him sew the quarters together, after which she covered his eyes again and led him home.
Who acts: Morgiana, body · What happens: have, take, lay, pull off, sew, cover · To what, where: cobbler, room, bandage, bade, eyes
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, body), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 took | advcl |
| 2 | bound | bound | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 handkerchief | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 handkerchief | det |
| 7 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lay | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 room | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulled | punct |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 took | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 bandage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bandage | det |
| 23 | bandage | bandage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bade | cc |
| 26 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sew | obl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bade | obj |
| 28 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 quarters | det |
| 30 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sew | obj |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 sew | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 covered | punct |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 covered | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 covered | nsubj |
| 36 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 covered | obj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 covered | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 led | cc |
| 41 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 led | obj |
| 43 | home | home | ADV | _ | 41 led | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Morgiana not said here | bound cobbler's eyes; with a handkerchief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Morgiana | cobbler | the room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | the body | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pull off | participle | the bandage | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bandage=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sew | present | bade | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Product | ||||
| 6 | cover | past | Morgiana | cobbler's eyes | again | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | |||
| 7 | lead | past | Morgiana not said here | cobbler | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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