The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 177
The genie appeared, and at the magician’s command carried him, together with the palace and the Princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.
Who acts: genie, magician · What happens: appear, carry, command · To what, where: bade, command · 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 (genie, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 genie | det |
| 2 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 magician | case |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Princess | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 place | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Africa | case |
| 29 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the genie | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | the genie not said here | bade | the magician's command | with the palace and the Princess; in lamp; to a lonely place in Africa; together property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 3 | command | the magician | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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