--- title: On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the hot boiled oil, and knew at once that his plot to murder Ali Baba and his household had been discovered. Who acts: captain, you, plot. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, you, plot), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:34:110 # text = On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the hot boiled oil, and knew at once that his plot to murder Ali Baba and his household had been discovered. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 smelt smelt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 obl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 plot plot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 murder murder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 32 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | captain *not said here* | | | the first jar | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | captain *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **smelt** | past | captain | the hot boiled oil | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **boil** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **know** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **murder** | to-infinitive | captain's plot | Ali | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Patient | | 8 | **discover** | past · perfect · passive | | captain's household | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 9 | **plot** | | captain | | | | | | nom plot «cognition 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. - ← previous: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/111/) - ↑ back to [The Forty Thieves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/)