The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 223

He will go for some and while he is gone I will tell you what to do.”

Who acts: Aladdin, I · What happens: go, be, tell, do · To what, where: you · 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, I), 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	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 some	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	advcl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	future	Aladdin		for some	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for some=Beneficiary
2	is	present	Aladdin		gone property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	future	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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