The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 27

Aladdin bade her keep her cotton, for he would sell the lamp instead.

Who acts: Aladdin, child · What happens: bade, keep, sell · To what, where: cotton, 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: who acts (Aladdin, child), 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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cotton	nmod:poss
6	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sell	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 sell	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sell	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sell	aux
11	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lamp	det
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sell	obj
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	11 sell	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Aladdin			tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	child	child's cotton		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=Theme
3	sell	would	Aladdin	the lamp	instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=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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