The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 106
She then confessed all, bidding him to ask the Vizier’s son if it were not so.
Who acts: Princess, head · What happens: confess, bid, ask, not be · To what, where: all, Sultan, son
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 (Princess, head), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 confessed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 confessed | advmod |
| 3 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 confessed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bidding | punct |
| 6 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 confessed | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bidding | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bidding | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Vizier | det |
| 11 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Vizier | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | iobj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 so | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 so | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 so | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 ask | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | Princess | all | then | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | |||
| 2 | bid | gerund | Princess not said here | Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the Vizier's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | head | so property | tree rules |
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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