The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 118
Ali Baba, when he had recovered somewhat from his astonishment, asked what had become of the merchant.
Who acts: Ali, merchant · What happens: recover, ask, become, astonish · To what, where: astonishment · 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, 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 recovered | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 recovered | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recovered | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovered | aux |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Ali | acl:relcl |
| 8 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 7 recovered | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 astonishment | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ali | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | Ali | merchant's astonishment | somewhat property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ali | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | of the merchant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | astonish | merchant | nom astonishment «feeling 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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