The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 77

At first Mustapha refused, saying that he had been blindfolded; but when the robber gave him another piece of gold he began to think he might remember the turnings if blindfolded as before.

Who acts: Mustapha, robber · What happens: refuse, say, blindfold, give, begin, think · To what, where: Mustapha, piece, turnings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mustapha, robber), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 refused	obl
3	Mustapha	Mustapha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 refused	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 blindfolded	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blindfolded	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blindfolded	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 blindfolded	aux:pass
11	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saying	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 gave	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 robber	det
16	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 began	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 think	mark
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remember	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 remember	aux
29	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 turnings	det
31	turnings	turning	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 remember	obj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 blindfolded	mark
33	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 remember	ccomp
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 before	case
35	before	before	ADV	_	33 blindfolded	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Mustapha				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Mustapha not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	blindfold	past · perfect · passive		Mustapha			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	give	past	the robber	another piece of gold	Mustapha		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme
5	begin	past	Mustapha				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Mustapha not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	remember	might	Mustapha	the turnings			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent turning=Theme clause=Attribute
8	blindfold a condition, not said to happen	participle				before property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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