The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 95
He returned to the house, and Morgiana led him to his chamber.
Who acts: captain, Morgiana · What happens: return, lead · To what, where: captain, chamber
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, Morgiana), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 8 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | captain | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Morgiana | captain | captain's chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chamber=Destination |
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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