The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 155

He told his son the secret of the cave, which his son handed down in his turn, so the children and grandchildren of Ali Baba were rich to the end of their lives.

Who acts: captain, cave, children · What happens: tell, son, hand down, be · To what, where: secret, son, turn · 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 (captain, cave, children), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 son	nsubj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cave	conj
14	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 son	acl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 handed	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 turn	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 turn	nmod:poss
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rich	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	29 rich	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rich	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grandchildren	cc
24	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 children	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Baba	case
26	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Baba	compound
27	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 children	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rich	cop
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rich	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 lives	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 lives	nmod:poss
35	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 end	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	captain	the secret of the cave and captain's son	captain's son				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient secret=Topic
2	son		the cave and captain's son						tree rules
3	hand down	participle		captain's son not said here		captain's turn			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the children of Ali Baba and grandchildren				to the end of children's lives	rich property	tree rules

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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