The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 212

“Now I know,” cried Aladdin, “that we have to thank the African magician for this!

Who acts: Aladdin, we · What happens: know, cry, have, thank · To what, where: African magician · 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, we), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 thank	mark
15	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 magician	det
17	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 magician	amod
18	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 thank	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Aladdin		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	Aladdin				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	we				tree rules
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the African magician		for this	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent magician=Theme for this=Attribute

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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