The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 93

He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do.

Who acts: captain, mules, pretense · What happens: bring, sup, go, speak, see, tell · To what, where: stranger, hall, Morgiana, kitchen, pretense, men · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mules, pretense), 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 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hall	nmod:poss
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 supped	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 supped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 supped	aux
13	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	parataxis
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Morgiana	case
19	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Captain	det
26	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 yard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 yard	det
30	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	32 pretense	case
32	pretense	pretense	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 seeing	mark
34	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 pretense	acl
35	after	after	ADP	_	37 mules	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mules	nmod:poss
37	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 seeing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 tell	cc
40	really	really	ADV	_	42 tell	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 tell	mark
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brought	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 men	nmod:poss
44	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tell	obj
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 do	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 do	mark
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 tell	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	captain	the stranger		captain's hall			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme into hall=Destination
2	sup	past · perfect	mules = mule						vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past					again		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			Morgiana	the kitchen			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to morgiana=Co-Agent
5	go	past	the Captain			pretense		into the yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location
6	see	gerund	pretense not said here				after captain's mules		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	captain not said here		captain's men				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
8	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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