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title: When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with A… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them. Who acts: Cogia. 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 137

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When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them.

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**Who acts:** Cogia · **What happens:** serve, leave, think, make, murder · **To what, where:** dessert, Cogia, son, men

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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 (Cogia), 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:pg503:34:137
# text = When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dessert |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Cogia |  |  |  | with Ali Baba and Cogia's son; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with baba=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Cogia | Cogia's son |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Cogia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **murder** | to-infinitive | Cogia *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  | then |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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