The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 15

They sat down by a fountain and the magician pulled a cake from his girdle, which he divided between them.

Who acts: ways, magician · What happens: sit down, pull, divide · To what, where: cake, girdle

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 (ways, magician), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fountain	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fountain	det
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magician	det
9	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cake	det
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 girdle	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 girdle	nmod:poss
15	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 divided	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 divided	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 divided	nsubj
19	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 girdle	acl:relcl
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 divided	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	ways = way			by a fountain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location
2	pull	past	the magician	a cake	magician's girdle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from girdle=Initial_Location
3	divide	past	magician	magician's girdle		between ways = way	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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