The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 228

Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beauty, but the Princess cut him short, saying: “Let us drink first, and you shall say what you will afterward.”

Who acts: Princess, us, you · What happens: drink, make, cut, say, let, praise · To what, where: magician, speech, Princess, us, beauty · 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 (Princess, us, you), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 speech	det
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 praise	case
10	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speech	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beauty	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beauty	nmod:poss
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 praise	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cut	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cut	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cut	nsubj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cut	obj
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cut	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct
25	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saying	ccomp
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 Let	obj
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Let	xcomp
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 drink	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 say	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	aux
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Let	parataxis
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 will	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 will	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	ccomp
37	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	36 will	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		the magician			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient
2	make	past		a speech	Princess		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary speech=Product
3	cut	past	the Princess	magician		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
6	drink in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert in a quote	shall	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	praise			Princess's beauty			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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