The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 220
He changed clothes with the first person he met in the town, and having bought a certain powder, returned to the Princess, who let him in by a little side door.
Who acts: Aladdin, Princess · What happens: change, meet, buy, return, let in · To what, where: clothes, first person, town, certain powder, Aladdin
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, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 changed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bought | cc |
| 15 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 bought | aux |
| 16 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 changed | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 powder | det |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 powder | amod |
| 19 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 changed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 24 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 returned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 let | nsubj |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 let | compound:prt |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 door | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 door | amod |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 door | compound |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 let | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Aladdin | clothes | with the first person | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with person=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | meet | past | Aladdin | the first person not said here | the town | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | buy | gerund · perfect | Aladdin not said here | a certain powder | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | past | Aladdin not said here | to the Princess result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to princess=Result | ||||
| 5 | let in | past | the Princess | Aladdin | by a little side door | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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