The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 92
He bade him welcome, opened his gates for the mules to enter, and went to Morgiana to bid her prepare a bed and supper for his guest.
Who acts: captain · What happens: bade, open, enter, go, bid, prepare · To what, where: Ali, gates, Morgiana, bed
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 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 2 bade | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gates | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mules | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mules | det |
| 11 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 enter | mark |
| 13 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mules | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Morgiana | case |
| 18 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bid | mark |
| 20 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bid | obj |
| 22 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bid | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepare | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 supper | cc |
| 26 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bed | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 guest | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 guest | nmod:poss |
| 29 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepare | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | captain | Ali | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | captain's gates | for the mules | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | captain not said here | Morgiana | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morgiana=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | bid | to-infinitive | captain not said here | Morgiana | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prepare | infinitive | captain not said here | a bed and supper | for captain's guest | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Product for guest=Beneficiary |
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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