The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 186

At that instant the Vizier, who saw that the crowd had forced their way into the courtyard and were scaling the walls to rescue Aladdin, called to the executioner to stay his hand.

Who acts: Vizier · What happens: see, force, scale, rescue, call, stay · To what, where: instant, crowd, courtyard, walls, Aladdin, executioner · 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 (Vizier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Vizier	det
5	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 forced	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crowd	det
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forced	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forced	aux
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	ccomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forced	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 courtyard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 courtyard	det
18	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forced	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scaling	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 scaling	aux
21	scaling	scale	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 forced	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 scaling	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rescue	mark
25	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 scaling	advcl
26	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 rescue	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 forced	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 executioner	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 executioner	det
31	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stay	mark
33	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 called	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hand	nmod:poss
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stay	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	the Vizier			that instant	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	force	past · perfect · passive		the crowd		the courtyard	tree rules
3	scale	past · progressive		the walls			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Source
4	rescue	to-infinitive		Aladdin			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme
5	call	participle			the executioner		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to executioner=Recipient
6	stay	to-infinitive		Aladdin's hand			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=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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