The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 190

Aladdin was so amazed that he could not say a word.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: be, not say · To what, where: word · 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 (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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 amazed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 amazed	advmod
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 amazed	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Aladdin					amazed property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	could	Aladdin	a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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