The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 183
The people, however, who loved him, followed, armed, to see that he came to no harm.
Who acts: people, Aladdin · What happens: love, follow, see, come · To what, where: Aladdin, harm
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 (people, Aladdin), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 loved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loved | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 loved | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armed | punct |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 followed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 loved | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 harm | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 harm | det |
| 21 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the people | Aladdin | however property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | the people not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Aladdin | no harm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location |
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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