The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 120
Ali Baba at once gave Morgiana her freedom, saying that he owed her his life.
Who acts: Ali Baba, Baba · What happens: give, say, owe · To what, where: freedom, Morgiana, life · 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 Baba, Baba), 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 | 2 Baba | compound |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 gave | obl |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 owed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 owed | nsubj |
| 13 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 owed | iobj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Ali Baba | Morgiana's freedom | Morgiana | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent morgiana=Recipient freedom=Theme at once=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ali Baba not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | owe | past | Baba | Baba's life | Morgiana | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal life=Theme |
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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