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The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 187

The people, indeed, looked so threatening that the Sultan gave way and ordered Aladdin to be unbound, and pardoned him in the sight of the crowd.

Who acts: people, Sultan · What happens: look, threaten, give, order, be, pardon · To what, where: way, Aladdin, sight, crowd

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, Sultan), 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

detnsubjpunctadvmodpunctadvmodadvclmarkdetnsubjadvclobjccconjobjmarkcopxcomppunctccconjobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETpeopleNOUN,PUNCTindeedADV,PUNCTlookedVERBsoADVthreateningVERBthatSCONJtheDETSultanPROPNgaveVERBwayNOUNandCCONJorderedVERBAladdinPROPNtoPARTbeAUXunboundADJ,PUNCTandCCONJpardonedVERBhimPRONinADPtheDETsightNOUNofADPtheDETcrowdNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 peopledet
2peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur6 lookednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 peoplepunct
4indeedindeedADV_6 lookedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_4 indeedpunct
6lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7sosoADV_8 threateningadvmod
8threateningthreatenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 lookedadvcl
9thatthatSCONJ_12 gavemark
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Sultandet
11SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing12 gavensubj
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 lookedadvcl
13waywayNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
14andandCCONJ_15 orderedcc
15orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 gaveconj
16AladdinAladdinPROPNNumber=Sing15 orderedobj
17totoPART_19 unboundmark
18bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf19 unboundcop
19unboundunboundADJDegree=Pos15 orderedxcomp
20,,PUNCT_22 pardonedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 pardonedcc
22pardonedpardonVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 lookedconj
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 pardonedobj
24ininADP_26 sightcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 sightdet
26sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing22 pardonedobl
27ofofADP_29 crowdcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 crowddet
29crowdcrowdNOUNNumber=Sing26 sightnmod
30..PUNCT_6 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastthe peopleindeed propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2threatengerundthe people not said herevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3givepastthe Sultanwayvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4orderpastthe Sultan not said hereAladdinvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme
5is not said to happento-infinitivethe Sultan not said hereunbound propertytree rules
6pardonpastthe people not said hereAladdinthe sight of the crowdvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7sightthe crowdnom sight «cognition 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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