The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 81
The thief, meantime, told his comrades of his discovery.
Who acts: thief, Mustapha · What happens: tell, discover · To what, where: comrades · 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 (thief, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thief | det |
| 2 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meantime | punct |
| 4 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thief | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thief | punct |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 8 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 discovery | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comrades | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the thief and meantime | Mustapha's comrades of Mustapha's discovery | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent comrade=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | discover | Mustapha | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=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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