The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 163
“Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin’s palace,” was the reply, “the greatest wonder of the world?
Who acts: you · What happens: not hear, be, wonder · To what, where: reply, world · 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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 reply | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Aladdin | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Aladdin | case |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reply | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reply | det |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wonder | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 wonder | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wonder | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 wonder | amod |
| 20 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reply | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wonder | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | you | of Aladdin Prince's palace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | the reply | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wonder in a quote | the world | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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