The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 78

This means succeeded; the robber partly led him, and was partly guided by him, right in front of Cassim’s house, the door of which the robber marked with a piece of chalk.

Who acts: This, robber, Mustapha · What happens: mean, succeed, lead, guide, mark · To what, where: Mustapha, door, front, robber

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 (This, robber, Mustapha), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 led	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robber	det
6	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 led	nsubj
7	partly	partly	ADV	_	8 led	advmod
8	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 led	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guided	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 guided	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 guided	aux:pass
13	partly	partly	ADV	_	14 guided	advmod
14	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 led	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guided	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 front	punct
18	right	right	ADV	_	20 front	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 front	case
20	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guided	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 house	case
22	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Cassim	case
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 front	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 door	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guided	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 robber	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 robber	nsubj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robber	det
31	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 door	nmod
32	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 robber	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 piece	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 piece	det
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marked	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 chalk	case
37	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 piece	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	This				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	succeed not said to happen	participle	This not said here				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lead	past	the robber	Mustapha		partly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	guide	past · passive	Mustapha	the door of the robber	front of Cassim's house	partly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination
5	mark	participle		the robber not said here		with a piece of chalk	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with piece=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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