The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 112
The Sultan then turned to Aladdin’s mother, saying: “Good woman, a Sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty black slaves, led by as many white ones, splendidly dressed.
Who acts: Sultan, Good woman, son · What happens: turn, say, remember, send, carry, lead · To what, where: promises, Sultan, forty basins, jewels, forty black slaves, many white ones · 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 (Sultan, Good woman, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Aladdin | case |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 turned | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 13 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remember | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sultan | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | conj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 remember | aux |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 promises | nmod:poss |
| 21 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 remember | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remember | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 remember | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 remember | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 remember | aux |
| 26 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 27 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 remember | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 send | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 send | cc |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 send | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 send | aux |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 send | advmod |
| 34 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 remember | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 send | iobj |
| 36 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 basins | nummod |
| 37 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 send | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 gold | case |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 basins | nmod |
| 40 | brimful | brimful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 basins | amod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 jewels | case |
| 42 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 brimful | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carried | punct |
| 44 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 jewels | acl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 slaves | case |
| 46 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 slaves | nummod |
| 47 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 slaves | amod |
| 48 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 carried | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 led | punct |
| 50 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 slaves | acl |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 ones | case |
| 52 | as | as | ADV | _ | 53 many | advmod |
| 53 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 ones | amod |
| 54 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 ones | amod |
| 55 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 led | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 dressed | punct |
| 57 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 58 dressed | advmod |
| 58 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 ones | acl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Sultan | then | to Aladdin's mother | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Sultan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | must | Good woman and a Sultan | Sultan's promises | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | future | the Sultan = sultan | the Sultan = sultan | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent my=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send in a quote | must | your son | forty basins of gold | the Sultan = sultan | first property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination basin=Theme | ||
| 6 | carry in a quote | participle | jewels not said here | by forty black slaves | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | lead in a quote | participle | forty black slaves not said here | by many white ones | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by one=Destination | ||||
| 8 | dress in a quote | participle | many white ones not said here | splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | promise in a quote | Sultan | nom promise «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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