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The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 126

Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: wish, return, invite, receive, smile, thank · To what, where: kindness, Baba, house

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), 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

nsubjflatpunctconjmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctobjcasenmod:possoblccconjobjadvclpunctconjobjcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootAliPROPNBabaPROPN,PUNCTwishingVERBtoPARTreturnVERBhisPRONkindnessNOUN,PUNCTinvitedVERBhimPRONintoADPhisPRONhouseNOUNandCCONJreceivedVERBhimPRONsmilingVERB,PUNCTthankingVERBhimPRONforADPhisPRONkindnessNOUNtoADPhisPRONsonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AliAliPROPNNumber=Sing10 invitednsubj
2BabaBabaPROPNNumber=Sing1 Aliflat
3,,PUNCT_4 wishingpunct
4wishingwishVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part1 Aliconj
5totoPART_6 returnmark
6returnreturnVERBVerbForm=Inf4 wishingxcomp
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 kindnessnmod:poss
8kindnesskindnessNOUNNumber=Sing6 returnobj
9,,PUNCT_1 Alipunct
10invitedinviteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 invitedobj
12intointoADP_14 housecase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 housenmod:poss
14househouseNOUNNumber=Sing10 invitedobl
15andandCCONJ_16 receivedcc
16receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 invitedconj
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 receivedobj
18smilingsmileVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 receivedadvcl
19,,PUNCT_20 thankingpunct
20thankingthankVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 smilingconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 thankingobj
22forforADP_24 kindnesscase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 kindnessnmod:poss
24kindnesskindnessNOUNNumber=Sing20 thankingobl
25totoADP_27 soncase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 sonnmod:poss
27sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing24 kindnessnmod
28..PUNCT_10 invitedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wishgerundAli not said herevn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2return not said to happento-infinitiveAli not said hereAli's kindnessvn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme
3invitepastAliBabaBaba's housevn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4receivepastAli not said hereBabavn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5smilegerundAli not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6thank speech: thankgerundAli not said hereBabafor Baba's kindness to Baba's sonvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute

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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