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title: Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented, and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor. Who acts: Ali, marriage. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, wit
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 150

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Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented, and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor.

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**Who acts:** Ali, marriage · **What happens:** be, save, offer, consent, celebrate · **To what, where:** Morgiana, life, marriage, few days

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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, marriage), 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:pg503:34:150
# text = Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented, and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ali |  | Morgiana |  |  | grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | Ali *not said here* | Ali's life |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Ali |  | Morgiana | marriage |  | to Ali's son *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Goal |
| 4 | **consent** | past | marriage |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | a few days after the wedding |  |  |  | with greatest splendor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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