The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 201
“Even so,” said Aladdin, “but thou canst take me to the palace, and set me down under my dear wife’s window.”
Who acts: Aladdin, thou · What happens: say, take, set down · To what, where: Aladdin, palace, 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 (Aladdin, thou), 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 so | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 window | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wife | amod |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 window | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 28 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | can | thou | Aladdin | the palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | set down in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | Aladdin | my dear wife's window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under window=Destination |
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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