The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 211

“Alas!” she said, “I am the innocent cause of our sorrows,” and told him of the exchange of the lamp.

Who acts: Princess, our · What happens: say, be, tell, sorrow, exchange · To what, where: innocent cause, Aladdin, lamp · 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 (Princess, our), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cause	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cause	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cause	det
12	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cause	amod
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sorrows	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sorrows	nmod:poss
16	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cause	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 exchange	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 exchange	det
24	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 lamp	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lamp	det
27	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 exchange	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Princess	the innocent cause		of our sorrows	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Princess not said here		Aladdin	of the exchange of the lamp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	sorrow in a quote		our				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
5	exchange			the lamp			nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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