The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 227
When he returned she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Africa, handing him her cup in exchange for his, as a sign she was reconciled to him.
Who acts: Aladdin, Princess · What happens: return, ask, drink, hand, reconcile, sign · To what, where: Aladdin, health, wine, cup, exchange, Princess
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drink | mark |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 health | nmod:poss |
| 10 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wine | det |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wine | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 handing | punct |
| 17 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drink | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 handing | iobj |
| 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 | 17 handing | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 exchange | case |
| 22 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 handing | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 sign | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sign | nmod:poss |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sign | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 sign | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sign | det |
| 28 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exchange | nmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 reconciled | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 31 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sign | acl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 reconciled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Aladdin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Princess | Aladdin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's health | the wine of Africa | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient | |||
| 4 | hand | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess's cup | Aladdin | exchange for Aladdin's sign | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cup=Theme | ||
| 5 | reconcile | past · passive | Princess | Aladdin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sign | Aladdin | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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