The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 90

The Captain stopped his mules in front of Ali Baba’s house, and said to Ali Baba, who was sitting outside for coolness: “I have brought some oil from a distance to sell at to-morrow’s market, but it is now so late that I know not where to pass the night, unless you will do me the favor to take me in.”

Who acts: Captain, Ali Baba, I, oil, morrow · What happens: stop, say, sit, bring, sell, be · To what, where: mules, front, Ali Baba, oil, market, favor · 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 (Captain, Ali Baba, I, oil), 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	2 Captain	det
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mules	nmod:poss
5	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stopped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Baba	compound
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Baba	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Baba	case
17	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Baba	compound
18	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Baba	acl
23	outside	outside	ADV	_	22 sitting	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 coolness	case
25	coolness	coolness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	conj
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 oil	det
32	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 distance	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 distance	det
35	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 sell	mark
37	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 brought	advcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	43 market	case
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 market	case
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 to	punct
41	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 market	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 morrow	case
43	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sell	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 late	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 late	cc
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 late	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 late	cop
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 late	advmod
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 late	advmod
50	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stopped	parataxis
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 know	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 know	nsubj
53	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 late	advcl
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 know	advmod
55	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 pass	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 pass	mark
57	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 know	ccomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 night	det
59	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pass	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 do	punct
61	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	64 do	mark
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 do	nsubj
63	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 do	aux
64	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 pass	conj
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 do	iobj
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 favor	det
67	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 do	obj
68	to	to	PART	_	69 take	mark
69	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 do	advcl
70	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 take	obj
71	in	in	ADP	_	69 take	compound:prt
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct
73	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the Captain	captain's mules		front of Ali Baba's house			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			Ali Baba				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baba=Recipient
3	sit	past · progressive	Ali Baba					for coolness; outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect	I	some oil				from a distance	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oil=Theme from distance=Initial_Location
5	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			morrow's market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at market=Asset
6	is in a quote	present	oil				now	late property	tree rules
7	not know in a quote	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	pass in a quote	to-infinitive					night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	Ali Baba = baba	the favor	me				tree rules
10	take in in a quote	to-infinitive	Ali Baba = baba not said here		me				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
11	market in a quote		morrow						nom market «act transitive»: poss=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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