The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 8
(1) so plainly that Ali Baba heard him.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: hear · To what, where: Baba
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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 plainly | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 plainly | advmod |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 7 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ali | flat |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plainly | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plainly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ali | Baba | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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