The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 85

Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also.

Who acts: Baba, Morgiana · What happens: dispatch, win, mark, be, put · To what, where: robber, Baba, house, red chalk, second messenger

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 (Baba, Morgiana), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 robber	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dispatched	aux:pass
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 won	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 won	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 won	aux
9	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dispatched	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 Baba	case
11	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 won	obl
12	Mustapha	Mustapha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Baba	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marked	punct
14	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Baba	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marked	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 chalk	case
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chalk	amod
19	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 clever	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 clever	cc
22	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 clever	nsubj
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 clever	cop
24	again	again	ADV	_	26 clever	advmod
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 clever	advmod
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dispatched	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 clever	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 messenger	det
31	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 messenger	amod
32	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux:pass
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dispatched	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
37	also	also	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dispatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispatch	past · passive		another robber				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	win	gerund · perfect			Baba			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mark	past	Baba not said here	the house	red chalk			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in chalk=Destination
4	is	gerund	Morgiana			again	for robbers = robber; clever property	tree rules
5	put	past · passive		the second messenger			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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