The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 193

Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising, if he failed, to return and suffer death at the Sultan’s pleasure.

Who acts: Aladdin, Sultan · What happens: beg, find, promise, fail, return, suffer · To what, where: daughter, death, pleasure

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, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 begged	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 begged	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promising	punct
12	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 find	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 failed	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 failed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 failed	nsubj
16	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 return	mark
19	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 failed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 suffer	cc
21	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 return	conj
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 suffer	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	27 pleasure	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sultan	det
25	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pleasure	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Sultan	case
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 suffer	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Aladdin			day	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
2	find	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here	daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	gerund	Aladdin not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	Aladdin				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	return	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	suffer	infinitive		death	the Sultan's pleasure		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
7	please		the Sultan				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/193/