The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 37
Cassim left Ali Baba, meaning to be beforehand with him and get the treasure for himself.
Who acts: Cassim · What happens: leave, mean, be, get · To what, where: Ali, treasure
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 (Cassim), 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 | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ali | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 meaning | punct |
| 6 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 left | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beforehand | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beforehand | cop |
| 9 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 6 meaning | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beforehand | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 left | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Cassim | Ali | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | Cassim not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cassim not said here | with Cassim; beforehand property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | Cassim not said here | the treasure | for Cassim | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme for himself=Source |
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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