The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 153
The Sultan had his own fetched, which they soon used, but to no purpose, for in a month’s time the work was not half done.
Who acts: Sultan, jewelers, time · What happens: have, fetch, use, not do · To what, where: Sultan, work
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, jewelers, time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fetched | amod |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 used | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 used | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 used | advmod |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fetched | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 purpose | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 purpose | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 purpose | det |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 month | det |
| 21 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 month | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 work | det |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 done | advmod |
| 28 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 done | advmod |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | participle · passive | Sultan | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | past | jewelers = jeweler | time | to no purpose; soon property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 4 | not do | past · passive | a month's time not said here | the work | half property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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