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title: Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Bab… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town. Who acts: Ali Baba. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 2

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Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town.

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**Who acts:** Ali Baba · **What happens:** marry, live, have, maintain, cut, neighbor · **To what, where:** Cassim, plenty, wife, wood, neighboring forest, town

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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 Baba), 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:pg503:34:2
# text = Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town.
1	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | Cassim |  |  |  | to a rich wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | plenty |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plenty=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | Ali Baba |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | Ali Baba *not said here* | Baba's wife and children |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 5 | **cut** | gerund | Ali Baba *not said here* | wood |  | a neighboring forest |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 6 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sell** | gerund | Ali Baba *not said here* | wood |  | the town |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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