The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 89

Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk.

What happens: load, reach · To what, where: nineteen mules, town

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: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 loaded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
3	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mules	nummod
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loaded	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loaded	aux:pass
6	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 robbers	case
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 seven	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 thirty	punct
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 robbers	nummod
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loaded	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 jars	case
13	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 robbers	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 jar	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jar	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jar	det
17	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaded	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 oil	case
19	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jar	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reached	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reached	cc
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loaded	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 dusk	case
26	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	past · passive		the nineteen mules			then	with seven robbers in jars; the jar of oil obl	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with robber=Theme
2	reach	past		the town			dusk		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=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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