The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 235
Aladdin told him what had happened, and showed him the dead body of the magician, that he might believe.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: tell, happen, show, believe · To what, where: Sultan, dead body · 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 (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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 body | amod |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 magician | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magician | det |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 believe | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 believe | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 believe | aux |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 showed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Aladdin | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | Aladdin not said here | the dead body of the magician | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient body=Topic | |||
| 4 | believe | might | Aladdin | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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