The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 104
Her mother did not believe her in the least, but bade her rise and consider it an idle dream.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not believe, consider, rise · To what, where: Princess, least, rise
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 (mother), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 least | det |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 believe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rise | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 rise | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rise | compound |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consider | cc |
| 16 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rise | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 consider | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dream | det |
| 19 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dream | amod |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consider | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | Princess's mother | Princess | the least | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | consider | infinitive | Princess's mother not said here | rise | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme dream=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | rise | mother | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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