The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 36
Ali Baba, more out of kindness than fear, told him of the cave, and the very words to use.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: tell, use · To what, where: Cassim · 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), 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 | 11 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Ali | amod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kindness | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ali | punct |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 words | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 words | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 words | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 words | advmod |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 use | mark |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 words | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Ali | Cassim | of the cave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | Ali not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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