The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 169

The Princess, sitting in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, sent a slave to find out what the noise was about, who came back laughing, so that the Princess scolded her.

Who acts: Princess, noise · What happens: sit, send, find out, be, laugh, scold · To what, where: hall, slave, palace

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 (Princess, noise), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sent	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Princess	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	14 windows	case
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 windows	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 windows	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 windows	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 windows	nummod
14	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hall	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slave	det
18	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sent	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 find	compound:prt
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 find	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 noise	det
24	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	cop
26	about	about	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 came	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 scolded	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 scolded	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 scolded	nsubj
37	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laughing	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 scolded	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the Princess not said here		the hall of four twenty windows		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	send	past	the Princess	a slave			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3	find out	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	is	past	the noise			about, come property	tree rules
5	laugh	gerund	the noise not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	scold	past	the Princess	palace			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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