The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 79
Then, well pleased, he bade farewell to Baba Mustapha and returned to the forest.
Who acts: Mustapha · What happens: bade, return · To what, where: Baba
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bade | nsubj |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 7 bade | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Baba | case |
| 10 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | nmod |
| 11 | Mustapha | Mustapha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Baba | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | Mustapha | Baba | farewell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | to the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result |
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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