The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 150

Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented, and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor.

Who acts: Ali, marriage · What happens: be, save, offer, consent, celebrate · To what, where: Morgiana, life, marriage, few days

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, marriage), 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	5 grateful	nsubj
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grateful	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 grateful	advmod
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Morgiana	case
7	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grateful	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 saving	mark
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 saving	advmod
10	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grateful	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saving	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 offered	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	nsubj
15	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grateful	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	iobj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 son	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offered	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 marriage	case
21	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 consented	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 consented	nsubj
24	readily	readily	ADV	_	25 consented	advmod
25	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 marriage	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 celebrated	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 celebrated	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 days	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 celebrated	nsubj:pass
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 wedding	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wedding	det
33	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 days	nmod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 celebrated	aux:pass
35	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grateful	parataxis
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 splendor	case
37	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 splendor	amod
38	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 celebrated	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ali		Morgiana		grateful property	tree rules
2	save	gerund	Ali not said here	Ali's life			thus property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	offer	past	Ali		Morgiana	marriage	to Ali's son goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Goal
4	consent	past	marriage				readily property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	celebrate	past · passive		a few days after the wedding			with greatest splendor	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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