The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 88
The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel.
Who acts: Captain · What happens: put, rub · To what, where: one, each, outside, full vessel
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Captain | det |
| 2 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 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 | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 armed | punct |
| 9 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 10 armed | advmod |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 each | punct |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rubbing | punct |
| 15 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 outside | det |
| 17 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 jars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jars | det |
| 20 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 outside | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 oil | case |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbing | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 vessel | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 vessel | det |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 vessel | amod |
| 26 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Captain | one of captain's men | each | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | |||
| 2 | rub | gerund | the Captain not said here | the outside of the jars | the full vessel | with oil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent outside=Destination with oil=Theme |
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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