The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 144
Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart.
Who acts: Ali, Cogia Hassan, Morgiana, Hassan · What happens: put, see, come, pull out, make, plunge · To what, where: piece, Ali, purse, present, Morgiana, hand
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, Cogia Hassan, Morgiana, Hassan), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 son | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | conj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pulled | cc |
| 15 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hassan | compound |
| 16 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pulled | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Hassan | acl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 coming | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 seeing | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulled | punct |
| 26 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | parataxis |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 pulled | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 purse | nmod:poss |
| 29 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulled | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pulled | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 present | det |
| 34 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 plunged | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 plunged | cc |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 putting | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 putting | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 putting | aux |
| 40 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 plunged | advcl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hand | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 putting | obj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 putting | obl |
| 45 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 putting | obj |
| 46 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 dagger | det |
| 48 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plunged | obj |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 heart | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 heart | nmod:poss |
| 51 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plunged | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Ali and Ali's son | a piece of gold | piece | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | Cogia Hassan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | Morgiana | Ali | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | pull out | past | Cogia Hassan | Ali's purse | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Cogia Hassan not said here | a present | Morgiana | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 6 | put | past · progressive | Hassan | Ali's hand | hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset morgiana=Goal | |||
| 7 | plunge | past | Ali and Ali's son not said here | the dagger | Ali's heart | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dagger=Theme |
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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