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title: Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart. Who acts: Ali, Cogia Hassan, Morgiana, Hassan. A sentence of «The B
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 144

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Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart.

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**Who acts:** Ali, Cogia Hassan, Morgiana, Hassan · **What happens:** put, see, come, pull out, make, plunge · **To what, where:** piece, Ali, purse, present, Morgiana, hand

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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, Cogia Hassan, Morgiana, Hassan), 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:pg503:34:144
# text = Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
37	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
45	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Ali and Ali's son | a piece of gold |  | piece |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Cogia Hassan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | Morgiana |  | Ali |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pull out** | past | Cogia Hassan | Ali's purse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Cogia Hassan *not said here* | a present | Morgiana |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary present=Product |
| 6 | **put** | past · progressive | Hassan | Ali's hand |  | hand |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset morgiana=Goal |
| 7 | **plunge** | past | Ali and Ali's son *not said here* | the dagger |  | Ali's heart |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dagger=Theme |

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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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