The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 7

The finest man among them, whom Ali Baba took to be their captain, went a little way among some bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!”

Who acts: finest man · What happens: take, be, go, say · To what, where: captain, little way · 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 (finest man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
4	among	among	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 man	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 took	obj
8	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ali	flat
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	14 captain	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 captain	cop
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 captain	nmod:poss
14	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obj
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 bushes	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 bushes	det
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Open	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Open	punct
28	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Sesame	punct
30	Sesame	sesame	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Open	conj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Open	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 Open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the finest man among horses			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument whom=Destination
2	is a	to-infinitive		men's captain		tree rules
3	go	past	the finest man among horses not said here	a little way	among some bushes	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the finest man among horses not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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