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title: At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, as… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules. Who acts: Ali, seeing, merchant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 114

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At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules.

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**Who acts:** Ali, seeing, merchant · **What happens:** arise, see, jar, ask, not go · **To what, where:** daybreak, oil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, seeing, merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:34:114
# text = At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	jars	jar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | Ali |  |  | daybreak |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daybreak=Location |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the oil |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oil=Stimulus |
| 3 | **jar** | present | seeing |  |  | there |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the merchant |  |  |  |  | with merchant's mules | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with mule=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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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