The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 111
On seeing her poverty the Sultan felt less inclined than ever to keep his word, and asked his Vizier’s advice, who counselled him to set so high a value on the Princess that no man living could come up to it.
Who acts: Sultan, advice, Princess · What happens: see, feel, keep, ask, counsell, set · To what, where: poverty, word, advice, Sultan, high value, value
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 (Sultan, advice, 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 felt | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 inclined | advmod |
| 9 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 inclined | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inclined | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 word | nmod:poss |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 advice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 advice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Vizier | case |
| 22 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 counselled | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 counselled | nsubj |
| 25 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 advice | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 counselled | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 set | mark |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 counselled | advcl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 high | advmod |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 value | amod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 value | det |
| 32 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 Princess | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Princess | det |
| 35 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 come | nsubj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 come | nsubj |
| 39 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 come | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 come | aux |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 come | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 come | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Sultan not said here | mother's poverty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poverty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the Sultan | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | counsell | past | Sultan's advice | Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | set | to-infinitive | Sultan's advice not said here | a high value | on the Princess | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme on princess=Destination | |||
| 7 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | come up | could | the Princess | value | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | word | Sultan | nom word «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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