The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 127
When the merchant was about to take his leave Ali Baba stopped him, saying: “Where are you going, sir, in such haste?
Who acts: merchant, Ali Baba, you · What happens: be, take, stop, say, go · To what, where: leave, merchant, such haste · 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 (merchant, Ali Baba, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 about | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 about | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 about | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Baba | compound |
| 11 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stopped | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 18 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saying | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sir | punct |
| 23 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | vocative |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 haste | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 haste | case |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 haste | amod |
| 27 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchant | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | merchant's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Ali Baba | merchant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | gerund | Ali Baba not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | such haste | sir vocative | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location |
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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