The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 80

By and by Morgiana, going out, saw the mark the robber had made, quickly guessed that some mischief was brewing, and fetching a piece of chalk marked two or three doors on each side, without saying anything to her master or mistress.

Who acts: mark, mischief, chalk · What happens: go out, see, make, guess, brew, fetch · To what, where: mark, robber, piece, two doors, side, anything · 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 (mark, mischief, chalk), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 Morgiana	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Morgiana	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Morgiana	case
4	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Morgiana	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Morgiana	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mark	det
11	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 robber	det
13	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mark	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guessed	punct
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 guessed	advmod
18	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 brewing	mark
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 mischief	det
21	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brewing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 brewing	aux
23	brewing	brew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 guessed	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fetching	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fetching	cc
26	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fetching	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 chalk	case
30	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
31	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 chalk	acl
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 doors	nummod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 three	cc
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 two	conj
35	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 marked	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 side	det
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doors	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 saying	punct
40	without	without	SCONJ	_	41 saying	mark
41	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fetching	conj
42	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 saying	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 master	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 master	nmod:poss
45	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saying	obl
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 mistress	cc
47	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 master	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	gerund						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past		the mark			by Morgiana	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
3	make	past · perfect · passive	the mark not said here	the robber				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	guess	past					quickly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	brew	past · progressive	some mischief					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	fetch	gerund		a piece of chalk				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
7	mark	participle	chalk not said here	two doors		each side		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent door=Theme on side=Destination
8	say speech: assert	gerund		anything	mischief's master or mistress			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to master=Recipient

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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