The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 166

He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest poverty.

Who acts: magician · What happens: determine, get, plunge, hold · To what, where: hold, Aladdin, deepest poverty, lamp

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), 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 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	xcomp
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lamp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plunge	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plunge	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 plunge	advmod
12	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	conj
13	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 plunge	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 poverty	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poverty	det
16	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 poverty	amod
17	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plunge	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	determine	past	magician				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	to-infinitive	magician not said here	hold of the lamp			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	plunge	infinitive	magician not said here	Aladdin	the deepest poverty	again	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aladdin=Theme
4	hold			the lamp			nom hold «act 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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