The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 159
But far away in Africa the magician remembered Aladdin, and by his magic arts discovered that Aladdin, instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped, and had married a princess, with whom he was living in great honor and wealth.
Who acts: magician, Aladdin · What happens: remember, discover, perish, escape, marry, live · To what, where: Aladdin, cave, princess, great honor
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 (magician, Aladdin), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 away | cc |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 remembered | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Africa | case |
| 5 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 away | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 discovered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 discovered | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 arts | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arts | amod |
| 15 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 discovered | obl |
| 16 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remembered | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 Aladdin | mark |
| 18 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 discovered | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 perishing | punct |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 perishing | mark |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | perishing | perish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 discovered | advcl |
| 23 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 22 perishing | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 cave | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cave | det |
| 26 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perishing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 escaped | punct |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 escaped | aux |
| 29 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 discovered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 married | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 married | cc |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 married | aux |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 remembered | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 princess | det |
| 35 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 married | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 whom | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 whom | case |
| 38 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 living | obj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 living | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 living | aux |
| 41 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 married | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 honor | case |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 honor | amod |
| 44 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 living | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wealth | cc |
| 46 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 honor | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the magician | Aladdin | away property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | past | by Aladdin's magic arts | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | perish | gerund | the cave | miserably property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | escape | past · perfect | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | marry | past · perfect | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||||
| 6 | live | past · progressive | Aladdin | great honor and wealth | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme whom=Location |
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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