The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 231
He then went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China.
Who acts: Aladdin, bade · What happens: go, take, carry · To what, where: dead magician, lamp, vest, palace
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, bade), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 magician | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magician | amod |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lamp | det |
| 11 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 vest | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vest | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 vest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | vest | vest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carry | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carry | cc |
| 18 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 genie | det |
| 20 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 back | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 back | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 all | nmod |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 carry | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 China | case |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 back | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Aladdin | the dead magician | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to magician=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | Aladdin not said here | the lamp | Aladdin's vest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme out vest=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | bade | the palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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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