The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 105

The following night exactly the same thing happened, and next morning, on the Princess’s refusal to speak, the Sultan threatened to cut off her head.

Who acts: following night, Sultan, Princess · What happens: follow, happen, speak, threaten, cut off, refuse · To what, where: refusal, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (following night, Sultan, Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 happened	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 morning	cc
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refusal	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 refusal	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 refusal	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Princess	case
18	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 refusal	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 threatened	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sultan	det
23	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 threatened	nsubj
24	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cut	mark
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 threatened	xcomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past	the following night		the Princess's refusal	morning	exactly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on refusal=Location
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the following night not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	threaten	past	the Sultan					tree rules
5	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	Princess's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
6	refuse		the Princess					nom refusal «communication transitive»: 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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