The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 13
Next day he bought Aladdin a fine suit of clothes and took him all over the city, showing him the sights, and brought him home at nightfall to his mother, who was overjoyed to see her son so fine.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: buy, take, show, bring, overjoy, see · To what, where: fine suit, Aladdin, city, sights, mother, nightfall
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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 suit | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 suit | amod |
| 8 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 clothes | case |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 suit | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bought | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 city | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 showing | punct |
| 19 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 took | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showing | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sights | det |
| 22 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 showing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bought | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 nightfall | case |
| 29 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 overjoyed | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 36 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 mother | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 overjoyed | xcomp |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 see | obj |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 fine | advmod |
| 42 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 see | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Aladdin | a fine suit of clothes | Aladdin | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Beneficiary suit=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | the city | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | show | gerund | Aladdin not said here | the sights | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sight=Topic | |||
| 4 | bring | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | Aladdin's mother | nightfall | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mother=Destination | |
| 5 | overjoy | past · passive | Aladdin's mother | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | mother's son | fine property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
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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