The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 15
Then Ali Baba climbed down and went to the door concealed among the bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!” and it flew open.
Who acts: Ali, Sesame · What happens: climb down, go, conceal, say, fly · To what, where: bushes · 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, Sesame), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | flat |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concealed | obl |
| 11 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | ccomp |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 bushes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bushes | det |
| 14 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 concealed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Open | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Open | punct |
| 20 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sesame | punct |
| 22 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Open | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Open | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Open | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 flew | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past | Ali | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Ali not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | conceal | past | Ali not said here | the bushes | to the door | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent among bush=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Ali not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fly | past | Sesame | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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