The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 151
He showed them the unfinished window, and bade them fit it up like the others.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: show, fit up · To what, where: jewelers, bade
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 (Sultan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 5 | unfinished | unfinished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 window | amod |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fit | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | obl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fit | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fit | compound:prt |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Sultan | jewelers = jeweler | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient window=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fit up | present | Sultan not said here | bade | like the others | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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