The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 142
She told him that, having seen him, she willingly obeyed her father in this matter.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: tell, have, see, obey · To what, where: that, Aladdin, father, matter · 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 (Princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 having | punct |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | advcl |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 having | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obeyed | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 obeyed | nsubj |
| 11 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 12 obeyed | advmod |
| 12 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obeyed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 matter | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obeyed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | that | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | participle | Princess not said here | Aladdin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | obey | past | Princess | Princess's father | this matter | willingly property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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