The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 17

Aladdin was so tired that he begged to go back, but the magician beguiled him with pleasant stories, and led him on in spite of himself.

Who acts: Aladdin, magician · What happens: be, beg, go back, beguile, lead on, spite · To what, where: Aladdin, spite, magician

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, 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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 begged	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beguiled	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 beguiled	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 magician	det
14	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beguiled	nsubj
15	beguiled	beguile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beguiled	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 stories	case
18	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stories	amod
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beguiled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 led	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 led	cc
22	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beguiled	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 led	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	22 led	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 spite	case
26	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 led	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 spite	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Aladdin			tired property	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	Aladdin				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	beguile	past	the magician	Aladdin		with pleasant stories	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	lead on	past	the magician not said here	Aladdin	spite of magician		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spite=Destination
6	spite			magician			nom spite «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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