--- title: But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment. Who acts: Morgiana, Abdallah, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Forty Thieves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/) / 134 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 134 But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment. **Who acts:** Morgiana, Abdallah, that · **What happens:** not withstand, see, help, carry up, be, carry · **To what, where:** desire, strange man, Abdallah, dishes, robber Captain, dagger 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 (Morgiana, Abdallah, that), 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:pg503:34:134 # text = But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 withstand withstand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 11 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 Abdallah Abdallah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 30 Cogia Cogia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 Hassan Hassan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 under under ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **withstand** | could | Morgiana | a desire | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Morgiana *not said here* | this strange man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 3 | **help** | past | Morgiana | Abdallah | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent abdallah=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **carry up** | to-infinitive | Abdallah *not said here* | the dishes | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | Morgiana *not said here* | | | | moment | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | past | that | the robber Captain | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **carry** | past | Morgiana *not said here* | a dagger | | salt's garment | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/135/) - ↑ back to [The Forty Thieves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/)