The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 84
The guide was so confounded that he knew not what answer to make, and when they returned he was at once beheaded for having failed.
Who acts: five, Thieves · What happens: confound, not know, make, return, behead, have · To what, where: guide, five
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 (five, Thieves), 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 guide | det |
| 2 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confounded | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 confounded | advmod |
| 5 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confounded | ccomp |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 what | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 returned | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confounded | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 beheaded | obl |
| 23 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 returned | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 having | mark |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 beheaded | advcl |
| 26 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 having | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confound | past · passive | the guide | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not know | past | five | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | five not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | return | past | Thieves = thief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | behead | past · passive | five | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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