The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 155
The Sultan was surprised to receive his jewels again, and visited Aladdin, who showed him the window finished.
Who acts: Sultan, Aladdin, window · What happens: be, receive, visit, show, finish · To what, where: jewels, Aladdin · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Aladdin, window), 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 | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 receive | mark |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 receive | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 receive | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 visited | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 visited | cc |
| 12 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | parataxis |
| 13 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 visited | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 showed | nsubj |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Aladdin | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finished | nsubj |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 showed | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's jewels | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | past | Aladdin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | show | past | Aladdin | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | finish | past | the window | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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