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title: Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son. Who acts: Ali. 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 126

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Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** wish, return, invite, receive, smile, thank · **To what, where:** kindness, Baba, house

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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), 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:pg503:34:126
# text = Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | Ali's kindness |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | past | Ali |  | Baba | Baba's house |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **receive** | past | Ali *not said here* | Baba |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **smile** | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  | Baba |  |  | for Baba's kindness to Baba's son | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute |

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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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