The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 125

He called himself Cogia Hassan, and as he was both civil and well dressed he soon made friends with Ali Baba’s son, and through him with Ali Baba, whom he was continually asking to sup with him.

Who acts: Baba, Ali · What happens: call, be, dress, make, ask, sup · To what, where: Baba, Hassan, friends, Ali · 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 (Baba, Ali), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 called	obj
4	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hassan	compound
5	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 civil	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 civil	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 civil	cop
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 civil	cc:preconj
12	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dressed	cc
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 dressed	advmod
15	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 civil	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 son	case
21	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Baba	compound
22	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Baba	case
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 friends	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 him	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 him	cc
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 Ali	case
30	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 him	nmod
31	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Ali	flat
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 asking	punct
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 asking	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 asking	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 asking	aux
36	continually	continually	ADV	_	37 asking	advmod
37	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 Ali	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 sup	mark
39	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 asking	xcomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sup	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Baba	Baba			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
2	is	past	Baba			civil property	tree rules
3	dress	participle	Baba not said here			well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	Baba	Hassan	friends	with Ali Baba's son; soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset friend=Beneficiary he=Product
5	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	Baba	Ali		continually property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
6	sup not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ali not said here			with Baba	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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