The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 176

Little he cared, but left off crying his lamps, and went out of the city gates to a lonely place, where he remained till nightfall, when he pulled out the lamp and rubbed it.

Who acts: bade · What happens: care, leave off, cry, go out, remain, pull out · To what, where: Little, lamps, city gates, 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 (bade), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cared	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cared	nsubj
3	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cared	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 left	compound:prt
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 left	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lamps	nmod:poss
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cared	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 gates	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 gates	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gates	det
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gates	compound
18	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 place	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 remained	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 remained	nsubj
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 place	acl:relcl
27	till	till	ADP	_	28 nightfall	case
28	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remained	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pulled	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 pulled	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pulled	nsubj
32	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cared	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 pulled	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lamp	det
35	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pulled	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rubbed	cc
37	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pulled	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 rubbed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	bade	Little			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	leave off	past	bade not said here				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	gerund	bade not said here	bade's lamps			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Topic
4	go out	past	bade not said here	the city gates		to a lonely place	tree rules
5	remain	past	bade		till nightfall		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pull out	past	bade	the lamp			tree rules
7	rub	past	bade not said here	lamp			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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