The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 68

The Forty Thieves, on their return to the cave, were much astonished to find Cassim’s body gone and some of their money-bags.

Who acts: Forty Thieves, Thieves · What happens: be, find, return · To what, where: body

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 (Forty Thieves, Thieves), 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	3 Thieves	det
2	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thieves	compound
3	Thieves	Thief	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 astonished	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 return	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 return	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 return	nmod:poss
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Thieves	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Thieves	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 astonished	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 astonished	advmod
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 astonished	xcomp
17	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 body	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Cassim	case
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 find	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 some	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 gone	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 bags	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bags	nmod:poss
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bags	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 money	punct
27	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 some	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Forty Thieves		astonished property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the Forty Thieves not said here	Cassim's body	gone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic
3	return		Thieves = thief		to the cave	nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/68/