The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 226
The magician flew to his cellar, and the Princess put the powder Aladdin had given her in her cup.
Who acts: magician, Princess · What happens: fly, put, give · To what, where: powder, Aladdin, Princess, cup
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 (magician, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cellar | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powder | det |
| 13 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cup | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cup | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the magician | to magician's cellar result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cellar=Result | ||||
| 2 | put | past | the Princess | the powder | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent powder=Goal | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | Aladdin | Princess | Princess's cup | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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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