The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 126
Besides this, six slaves, beautifully dressed, to wait on my mother; and lastly, ten thousand pieces of gold in ten purses.”
What happens: dress, wait · To what, where: six slaves
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: 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 slaves | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 slaves | nummod |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 7 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 8 dressed | advmod |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slaves | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wait | mark |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 dressed | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lastly | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lastly | cc |
| 17 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slaves | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pieces | punct |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thousand | compound |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pieces | nummod |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lastly | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 purses | case |
| 25 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 purses | nummod |
| 26 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lastly | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lastly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | six slaves not said here | beautifully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | on my mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mother=Location |
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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