The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 221
“Put on your most beautiful dress,” he said to her “and receive the magician with smiles, leading him to believe that you have forgotten me.
Who acts: Aladdin, Princess · What happens: put, say, receive, lead, believe, forget · To what, where: beautiful dress, Princess, magician, Aladdin · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 dress | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dress | amod |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 receive | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 receive | cc |
| 16 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magician | det |
| 18 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receive | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 smiles | case |
| 20 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 receive | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leading | punct |
| 22 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leading | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 believe | mark |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 leading | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 forgotten | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 forgotten | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 forgotten | aux |
| 29 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 believe | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 forgotten | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | your beautiful dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | receive in a quote | infinitive | Aladdin not said here | the magician | with smiles | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead in a quote | gerund | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | Princess | Aladdin | tree rules |
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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