The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 199
“Save my life, genie,” said Aladdin, “bring my palace back.”
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: save, say, bring back · To what, where: life, palace · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 2 | Save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Save | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 genie | punct |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 life | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | infinitive | my life and genie | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | my palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
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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