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The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 76

The robber was overjoyed at his good fortune, and, giving him a piece of gold, desired to be shown the house where he stitched up the dead body.

Who acts: giving, Old · What happens: overjoy, give, desire, show, stitch up · To what, where: robber, good fortune, piece, Old, house, dead 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 (giving, Old), 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

detnsubj:passaux:passcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccpunctcsubj:passiobjdetobjcasenmodpunctparataxismarkaux:passxcompdetobjadvmodnsubjacl:relclcompound:prtdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETrobberNOUNwasAUXoverjoyedVERBatADPhisPRONgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTgivingVERBhimPRONaDETpieceNOUNofADPgoldNOUN,PUNCTdesiredVERBtoPARTbeAUXshownVERBtheDEThouseNOUNwhereADVhePRONstitchedVERBupADPtheDETdeadADJbodyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 robberdet
2robberrobberNOUNNumber=Sing4 overjoyednsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 overjoyedaux:pass
4overjoyedoverjoyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5atatADP_8 fortunecase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 fortunenmod:poss
7goodgoodADJDegree=Pos8 fortuneamod
8fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing4 overjoyedobl
9,,PUNCT_19 desiredpunct
10andandCCONJ_19 desiredcc
11,,PUNCT_12 givingpunct
12givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 desiredcsubj:pass
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 givingiobj
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 piecedet
15piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing12 givingobj
16ofofADP_17 goldcase
17goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing15 piecenmod
18,,PUNCT_19 desiredpunct
19desireddesireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 overjoyedparataxis
20totoPART_22 shownmark
21bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf22 shownaux:pass
22shownshowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 desiredxcomp
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 housedet
24househouseNOUNNumber=Sing22 shownobj
25wherewhereADVPronType=Rel27 stitchedadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 stitchednsubj
27stitchedstitchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 houseacl:relcl
28upupADP_27 stitchedcompound:prt
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 bodydet
30deaddeadADJDegree=Pos31 bodyamod
31bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing27 stitchedobj
32..PUNCT_4 overjoyedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1overjoypast · passivethe robberOld's good fortunetree rules
2givegerunda piece of goldOldvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme
3desireparticiplegivingvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4show not said to happento-infinitive · passivegiving not said herethe housevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: house=Recipient
5stitch uppastOldthe dead bodyvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Product

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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