The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 110

On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the hot boiled oil, and knew at once that his plot to murder Ali Baba and his household had been discovered.

Who acts: captain, you, plot · What happens: go, say, be, smelt, boil, know · To what, where: first jar, hot boiled oil, Ali, household · 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, you, plot), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 going	mark
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 smelt	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 jar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jar	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 jar	amod
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saying	cc
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 going	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
11	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 asleep	nsubj
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saying	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 going	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smelt	nsubj
17	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oil	det
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 oil	amod
20	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 oil	amod
21	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smelt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 smelt	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 knew	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 murder	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 plot	nmod:poss
29	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 murder	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 murder	mark
31	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 knew	advcl
32	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 murder	obj
33	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Ali	flat
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 discovered	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 household	nmod:poss
36	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 discovered	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 discovered	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 discovered	aux:pass
39	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 murder	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	captain not said here		the first jar		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	gerund	captain not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you			asleep property	tree rules
4	smelt	past	captain	the hot boiled oil			tree rules
5	boil	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	murder	to-infinitive	captain's plot	Ali			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Patient
8	discover	past · perfect · passive		captain's household			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
9	plot		captain				nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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