The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 141
“Princess,” he said, “blame your beauty for my boldness if I have displeased you.”
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: say, blame, displease · To what, where: beauty, you · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blame | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 blame | punct |
| 9 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blame | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 boldness | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boldness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boldness | boldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blame | obl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 displeased | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 displeased | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 displeased | aux |
| 18 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 blame | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 displeased | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blame in a quote | infinitive | your beauty | for my boldness | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme for boldness=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | displease a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | Aladdin | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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