The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 144
Next day Aladdin invited the Sultan to see the palace.
Who acts: Aladdin, Sultan · What happens: invite, see · To what, where: Sultan, palace
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, Sultan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:894): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Aladdin | the Sultan | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | the palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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