The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 140

“Come in, Morgiana,” said Ali Baba, “and let Cogia Hassan see what you can do”; and, turning to Cogia Hassan, he said: “She’s my slave and my housekeeper.”

Who acts: Ali Baba, Cogia, you, Baba · What happens: come in, say, let, see, do, turn · To what, where: Morgiana, Cogia · 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, Cogia, you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Morgiana	punct
5	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Baba	compound
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
16	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cogia	flat
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 let	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	ccomp
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turning	punct
26	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 said	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Cogia	case
28	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 turning	obl
29	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Cogia	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turning	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 ’s	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 ’s	punct
35	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ’s	nsubj
36	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 slave	nmod:poss
38	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ’s	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 housekeeper	cc
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 housekeeper	nmod:poss
41	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 slave	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 ’s	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come in in a quote	infinitive		Morgiana		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Ali Baba			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	see in a quote	present	Cogia			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	can	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	turn	gerund			Cogia	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cogia=Result
7	say speech: assert	past	Baba			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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