The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 130
When the Sultan saw him he came down from his throne, embraced him, and led him into a hall where a feast was spread, intending to marry him to the Princess that very day.
Who acts: Sultan, Aladdin, that · What happens: see, come down, embrace, lead, spread, intend · To what, where: Aladdin, throne, hall, feast
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 (Sultan, Aladdin, that), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 throne | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 throne | nmod:poss |
| 11 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embraced | punct |
| 13 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embraced | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hall | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hall | det |
| 21 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 spread | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 feast | det |
| 24 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spread | aux:pass |
| 26 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hall | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 intending | punct |
| 28 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 led | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 marry | mark |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 intending | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Princess | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 34 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 marry | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 day | nsubj |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 day | advmod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Princess | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Sultan | Aladdin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come down | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's throne | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | embrace | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | a hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 5 | spread | past · passive | a feast | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | intend | gerund | Aladdin not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | to the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to princess=Co-Patient | |||
| 8 | day | that | tree rules |
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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