The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 149
“I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace.”
Who acts: Aladdin, glory · What happens: wish, have, finish · To what, where: Majesty, glory, 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, glory), 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 | _ | 3 wished | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glory | det |
| 9 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 finishing | mark |
| 11 | finishing | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 glory | acl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finishing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | past | Aladdin | your Majesty | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majesty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | the glory | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glory=Patient | ||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | gerund | the glory not said here | this palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality palace=Eventuality |
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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