The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 2

Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town.

Who acts: Ali Baba · What happens: marry, live, have, maintain, cut, neighbor · To what, where: Cassim, plenty, wife, wood, neighboring forest, town

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 Baba), 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	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 wife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 plenty	case
11	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Baba	compound
15	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 maintain	mark
18	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maintain	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 children	cc
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wife	conj
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 cutting	mark
24	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 maintain	advcl
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 forest	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 forest	det
28	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 forest	amod
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 selling	cc
31	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 cutting	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 selling	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 town	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 town	det
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 selling	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		Cassim		to a rich wife	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient
2	live	past			plenty		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plenty=Location
3	have	past	Ali Baba				tree rules
4	maintain	to-infinitive	Ali Baba not said here	Baba's wife and children			vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
5	cut	gerund	Ali Baba not said here	wood	a neighboring forest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
6	neighbor	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	sell	gerund	Ali Baba not said here	wood	the town		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/2/