The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 20
“I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire.”
Who acts: false uncle, you · What happens: show, gather up, kindle · To what, where: something, you, sticks, fire
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 uncle, you), 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 | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 show | obj |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 gather | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 gather | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gather | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 gather | nsubj |
| 12 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 show | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gather | compound:prt |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gather | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 kindle | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kindle | nsubj |
| 17 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gather | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kindle | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | future | the false uncle = uncle | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 2 | gather up in a quote | present · do-support | you | sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kindle in a quote | infinitive | the false uncle = uncle | a fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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