The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 91
Though Ali Baba had seen the Captain of the robbers in the forest, he did not recognize him in the disguise of an oil merchant.
Who acts: Ali, captain · What happens: see, not recognize · To what, where: Captain, Ali, disguise
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, captain), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 recognize | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Captain | det |
| 7 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 robbers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 robbers | det |
| 10 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Captain | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robbers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recognize | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 recognize | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 recognize | advmod |
| 18 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recognize | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 disguise | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 disguise | det |
| 22 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 recognize | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 merchant | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 merchant | det |
| 25 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 merchant | compound |
| 26 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disguise | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 recognize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Ali | the Captain of the robbers in the forest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer captain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not recognize | past · do-support | captain | Ali | the disguise of a oil merchant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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