The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 96

She then told Abdallah, her fellow-slave, to set on the pot to make some broth for her master, who had gone to bed.

Who acts: Morgiana, master · What happens: tell, set, make, go · To what, where: Abdallah, pot, broth, bed · 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 (Morgiana, master), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slave	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slave	nmod:poss
7	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slave	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Abdallah	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 set	mark
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 pot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	advcl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 broth	det
19	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 master	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 gone	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 master	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Morgiana		Abdallah		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent abdallah=Recipient clause=Topic
2	set not said to happen	to-infinitive				the pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pot=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive		some broth				for Morgiana's master	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent broth=Material for master=Beneficiary
4	go	past · perfect	Morgiana's master			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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