The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 230
The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms round his neck; but Aladdin put her away, bidding her leave him, as he had more to do.
Who acts: Princess, Aladdin · What happens: open, fling, put away, bid, leave, have · To what, where: door, Aladdin, arms, Princess, more
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, Aladdin), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Aladdin | case |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flung | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 19 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bidding | punct |
| 24 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 put | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bidding | obj |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bidding | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 had | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 more | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Princess | the door | Aladdin | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to aladdin=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fling | past | the Princess not said here | Princess's arms | round Aladdin's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | put away | past | Aladdin | Princess | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 4 | bid | gerund | Aladdin not said here | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Aladdin | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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