The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 129

Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had grown so handsome.

Who acts: childhood, Aladdin · What happens: play, not know, grow · To what, where: Aladdin

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 (childhood, Aladdin), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 played	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	aux
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Those	acl:relcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obl
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 childhood	nmod:poss
9	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	obj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 knew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grown	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grown	aux
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Those	acl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 handsome	advmod
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grown	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	past · perfect			with Aladdin	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
2	not know	past	Aladdin's childhood	Aladdin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	grow	past · perfect	Aladdin		handsome property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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