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title: Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance. Who acts: Hassan, chance, Ali, Abdallah. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 141

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Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance.

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**Who acts:** Hassan, chance, Ali, Abdallah · **What happens:** be, fear, kill, pretend, see, begin · **To what, where:** chance, great eagerness, Morgiana

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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 (Hassan, chance, Ali, Abdallah), 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:pg503:34:141
# text = Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance.
1	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by no; Cogia Hassan *obl*; mean, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fear** | past | Hassan | Hassan's chance |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | Hassan's chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Ali |  |  |  |  | for the present; gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pretend** | past | Ali | great eagerness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | Morgiana |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morgiana=Stimulus |
| 7 | **begin** | past | Abdallah |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **play** | to-infinitive | Abdallah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **dance** | to-infinitive | Abdallah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **chance** |  | Hassan |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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