The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 160

He knew that the poor tailor’s son could only have accomplished this by means of the lamp, and traveled night and day until he reached the capital of China, bent on Aladdin’s ruin.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: know, accomplish, mean, travel, reach, bend · To what, where: son, capital, ruin · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 accomplished	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tailor	amod
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 tailor	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accomplished	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 accomplished	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 accomplished	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 accomplished	aux
12	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 means	nsubj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 accomplished	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 means	case
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lamp	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lamp	det
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 traveled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 traveled	cc
21	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 traveled	obl:unmarked
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 day	cc
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 night	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 reached	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reached	nsubj
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 traveled	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 capital	det
29	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 China	case
31	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 capital	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bent	punct
33	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 capital	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 ruin	case
35	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 ruin	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Aladdin	case
37	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bent	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Aladdin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	accomplish	could · perfect · passive		the poor tailor's son				tree rules
3	mean	present					of the lamp	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	travel	past	Aladdin not said here			night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	past	Aladdin	the capital of China				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme
6	bend	participle		the capital of China not said here	Aladdin's ruin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location
7	ruin		Aladdin					nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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