The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 115

She gave Aladdin the message, adding: “He may wait long enough for your answer!”

Who acts: mother, Aladdin, your · What happens: give, add, wait, answer · To what, where: message, Aladdin · 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 (mother, Aladdin, your), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 adding	punct
7	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wait	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	aux
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 wait	advmod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 answer	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 answer	nmod:poss
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wait	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	mother	the message	Aladdin		tree rules
2	add speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	wait in a quote	may	Aladdin			for your answer; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer in a quote		your				nom answer «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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