The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 128
Aladdin mounted his horse and passed through the streets, the slaves strewing gold as they went.
Who acts: Aladdin, slaves, streets · What happens: mount, pass, strew, go · To what, where: horse, streets, gold
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 (Aladdin, slaves, streets), 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mounted | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 streets | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 streets | det |
| 9 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slaves | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slaves | det |
| 12 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 streets | conj |
| 13 | strewing | strew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 slaves | acl |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strewing | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strewing | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | Aladdin not said here | the streets and the slaves | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location | ||||
| 3 | strew | gerund | the slaves not said here | gold | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | streets = street | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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