The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 33
“Ali Baba,” he said, showing him the gold piece, “you pretend to be poor and yet you measure gold.”
Who acts: Ali Baba, you · What happens: say, show, pretend, be, measure · To what, where: gold piece, Baba, gold · 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 Baba, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baba | punct |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Baba | compound |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baba | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baba | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showing | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | compound |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretend | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretend | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pretend | nsubj |
| 17 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 showing | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 poor | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 poor | cop |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pretend | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 measure | cc |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 measure | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 measure | nsubj |
| 24 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pretend | conj |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 measure | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ali Baba | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | show | gerund | Ali Baba not said here | the gold piece | Baba | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pretend in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | measure in a quote | present | you | gold | yet | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gold=Value |
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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