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title: The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered to take her to live with him and his wife if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave everything to Morgiana; whereupon she agreed, and dried her eyes. Who acts: wife, Ali Baba. A sen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 59

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The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered to take her to live with him and his wife if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave everything to Morgiana; whereupon she agreed, and dried her eyes.

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**Who acts:** wife, Ali Baba · **What happens:** learn, break out, offer, take, live, promise · **To what, where:** fate, cries, wife, counsel, everything, 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 (wife, 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:pg503:34:59
# text = The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered to take her to live with him and his wife if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave everything to Morgiana; whereupon she agreed, and dried her eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
45	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund | the wife of Cassim *not said here* | the fate of wife's husband |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic |
| 2 | **break out** | past | the wife of Cassim |  |  |  |  | into cries and tears *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into cry=Result |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Ali Baba |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ali Baba *not said here* |  | wife |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | Ali Baba *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Cassim | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | would | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | Cassim's counsel |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | everything | Morgiana |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to morgiana=Recipient |
| 9 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | wife |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **dry** | past | the wife of Cassim *not said here* | wife's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
| 11 | **fate** |  |  | wife's husband |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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