The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 114
At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules.
Who acts: Ali, seeing, merchant · What happens: arise, see, jar, ask, not go · To what, where: daybreak, oil · 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 (Ali, seeing, merchant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 3 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ali | flat |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jars | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jars | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 jars | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oil | det |
| 11 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | jars | jar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 jars | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 gone | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 gone | advmod |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 mules | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mules | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Ali | daybreak | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daybreak=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the oil | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oil=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | jar | present | seeing | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Ali not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not go | past · perfect | the merchant | with merchant's mules | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with mule=Beneficiary |
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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