The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 52
Ali Baba did his best to comfort her, and set out to the forest in search of Cassim.
What happens: comfort, set out, search · To what, where: wife, forest, Cassim
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: 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 | 5 best | nsubj |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 best | aux |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 best | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 comfort | mark |
| 7 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 best | csubj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comfort | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 comfort | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 search | case |
| 17 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forest | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Cassim | case |
| 19 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 search | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | to-infinitive | wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the forest in search of Cassim | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | search | Cassim | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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