The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 87

He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil.

Who acts: captain · What happens: return, order, go, neighbor, buy, be · To what, where: eight leather jars, men, neighboring villages, nineteen mules

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 (captain), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ordered	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ordered	cc
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 men	nmod:poss
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ordered	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 villages	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 villages	det
12	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 villages	amod
13	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 buy	cc
15	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
16	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 mules	nummod
17	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 buy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 jars	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 jars	cc
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 eight	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 thirty	punct
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 jars	nummod
23	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jars	compound
24	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 returned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 empty	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 empty	det
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jars	conj
28	except	except	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 empty	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 full	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 full	cop
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 oil	case
35	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	captain	eight leather jars				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	past	captain not said here		captain's men			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	captain not said here			the neighboring villages		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial_Location
4	neighbor	gerund						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	buy	infinitive	captain not said here	nineteen mules				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme
6	is	past					of oil; full property	tree rules

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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