The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 99
Morgiana thanked him for his advice, took the oil pot, and went into the yard.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: thank, take, go · To what, where: Abdallah, oil pot
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), 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 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | 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 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 advice | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 10 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pot | compound |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 yard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Morgiana | Abdallah | for Abdallah's advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | take | past | the oil pot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=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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