The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 98
“Do not be uneasy,” said Abdallah; “go into the yard and take some out of one of those jars.”
Who acts: Abdallah · What happens: not be, say, go, take · To what, where: some · 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 (Abdallah), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 uneasy | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 uneasy | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 uneasy | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 uneasy | cop |
| 5 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 uneasy | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 uneasy | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 take | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 jars | case |
| 23 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 jars | det |
| 24 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | uneasy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Abdallah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | some | out one of that jars | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme out one=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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