The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 141

Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance.

Who acts: Hassan, chance, Ali, Abdallah · What happens: be, fear, kill, pretend, see, begin · To what, where: chance, great eagerness, Morgiana

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 (Hassan, chance, Ali, Abdallah), 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	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hassan	compound
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	cop
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 no	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 means	obl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feared	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 feared	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feared	nsubj
11	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 chance	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chance	nmod:poss
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feared	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 killing	mark
16	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 chance	acl
17	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 gone	nsubj
18	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ali	flat
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 killing	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 present	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 present	det
23	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pretended	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 pretended	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pretended	nsubj
27	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eagerness	amod
29	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pretended	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pretended	advcl
32	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
35	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 began	nsubj
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pretended	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 play	mark
38	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Morgiana	cc
40	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 play	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 dance	mark
42	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 play	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			by no; Cogia Hassan obl; mean, pleased property	tree rules
2	fear	past	Hassan	Hassan's chance		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
3	kill	gerund	Hassan's chance not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	Ali		for the present; gone property	tree rules
5	pretend	past	Ali	great eagerness		tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	Morgiana		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morgiana=Stimulus
7	begin	past	Abdallah			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	play	to-infinitive	Abdallah not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	dance	to-infinitive	Abdallah not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	chance		Hassan			nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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