The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 67
Next day she went to live with Ali Baba, who gave Cassim’s shop to his eldest son.
Who acts: wife, Ali Baba · What happens: go, live, give · To what, where: shop, eldest son
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 (wife, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Baba | case |
| 8 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Baba | compound |
| 9 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Baba | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shop | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Cassim | case |
| 15 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wife | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | wife not said here | with Ali Baba | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with baba=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Ali Baba | Cassim's shop | Cassim's eldest son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shop=Theme to son=Recipient |
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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