The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 131
But Aladdin refused, saying, “I must build a palace fit for her,” and took his leave.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: refuse, say, build, take · To what, where: palace fit, leave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 refused | cc |
| 2 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 refused | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 build | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 build | aux |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fit | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fit | compound |
| 13 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 build | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Aladdin | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Aladdin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build in a quote | must | Aladdin | a palace fit | for Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fit=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | take | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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