The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 16
He had picked out the foolish Aladdin for this purpose, intending to get the lamp and kill him afterwards.
What happens: pick out, intend, get, kill · To what, where: magician, lamp
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | aux |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Aladdin | det |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Aladdin | amod |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 purpose | det |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 intending | punct |
| 12 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 picked | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 intending | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lamp | det |
| 16 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kill | cc |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 kill | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | past · perfect · passive | magician | for this purpose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary aladdin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | magician | afterwards property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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