The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 10

He presently fell down and kissed the place where Mustapha used to sit, bidding Aladdin’s mother not to be surprised at not having seen him before, as he had been forty years out of the country.

Who acts: bade, Mustapha · What happens: fall down, kiss, use, sit, bid, not be · To what, where: place, mother, bade, country

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, Mustapha), 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 fell	nsubj
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kissed	cc
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissed	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 used	advmod
10	Mustapha	Mustapha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 place	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bidding	punct
15	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sit	advcl
16	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 mother	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Aladdin	case
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bidding	obj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 surprised	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	22 surprised	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 surprised	cop
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bidding	parataxis
23	at	at	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 seen	advmod
25	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 surprised	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	obj
28	before	before	ADV	_	26 seen	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 been	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 been	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 been	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
33	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 sit	advcl
34	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 been	obl:unmarked
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 country	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 country	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 country	det
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 been	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	bade				down, presently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kiss	past	bade not said here	the place				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-Agent
3	use	past	Mustapha					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sit	to-infinitive	Mustapha not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bid	gerund	Mustapha not said here	Aladdin's mother				tree rules
6	not is	to-infinitive					surprised property	tree rules
7	not see	gerund · perfect		bade			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	be	past · perfect	bade		the country	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out country=Location

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 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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