The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 189

“False wretch!” said the Sultan, “come thither,” and showed him from the window the place where his palace had stood.

Who acts: False wretch, palace · What happens: say, come, show, stand · To what, where: place, Sultan, window · 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 (False wretch, palace), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
2	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wretch	amod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	thither	thither	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 showed	cc
16	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	iobj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 showed	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 showed	obj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 stood	advmod
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 palace	nmod:poss
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	aux
27	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 place	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	False wretch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	infinitive					thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	past	False wretch not said here	the place	Sultan	the window		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic
4	stand	past · perfect	Sultan's palace					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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