The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 137

When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them.

Who acts: Cogia · What happens: serve, leave, think, make, murder · To what, where: dessert, Cogia, son, men

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 (Cogia), 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	6 served	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dessert	det
3	dessert	dessert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 served	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 served	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 served	aux:pass
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 left	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 served	punct
8	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
9	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cogia	flat
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Baba	case
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Baba	compound
15	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 son	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Baba	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 thought	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 son	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	xcomp
25	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 murder	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 murder	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 murder	mark
29	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 drunk	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 murder	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · perfect · passive		the dessert			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	leave	past · passive		Cogia		with Ali Baba and Cogia's son; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with baba=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Cogia	Cogia's son			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	Cogia not said here			drunk property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	murder	to-infinitive	Cogia not said here	men = man	then		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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