The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 11

He then turned to Aladdin, and asked him his trade, at which the boy hung his head, while his mother burst into tears.

Who acts: bade, boy, mother · What happens: turn, ask, hang, burst, trade · To what, where: Aladdin, trade, bade, head, tears

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, boy, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Aladdin	case
5	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 trade	nmod:poss
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hung	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	nsubj
17	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 burst	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 burst	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burst	nsubj
24	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 tears	case
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 burst	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	past	bade		Aladdin		then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aladdin=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	bade not said here	bade's trade	bade			tree rules
3	hang	past	the boy	bade's head				vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at which=Destination
4	burst	past	bade's mother			tears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	trade		bade					nom trade «act 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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