The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 143
After the wedding had taken place Aladdin led her into the hall, where a feast was spread, and she supped with him, after which they danced till midnight.
Who acts: wedding, Princess, halls · What happens: take, lead, spread, sup, dance · To what, where: place, Princess, 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 (wedding, Princess, halls), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 wedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wedding | acl |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | appos |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 spread | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spread | aux:pass |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hall | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 supped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 supped | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 supped | nsubj |
| 22 | supped | sup | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 supped | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 danced | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 danced | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 danced | nsubj |
| 29 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 supped | conj |
| 30 | till | till | ADP | _ | 31 midnight | case |
| 31 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 danced | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | the wedding not said here | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Princess | the hall | after the wedding | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 3 | spread | past · passive | a feast | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sup | past | Princess | with Aladdin | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | dance | past | halls = hall | midnight | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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