The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 238

He traveled to China to avenge his brother’s death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him.

Who acts: magician, woman, brother · What happens: travel, avenge, go, visit, call, think · To what, where: China, death, pious woman, magician · 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 (magician, woman, brother), 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	2 traveled	nsubj
2	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 traveled	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avenge	mark
6	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 traveled	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avenge	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 traveled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 visit	mark
15	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visit	obj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 woman	acl
20	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 use	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 use	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 use	case
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thinking	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	travel	past	magician		China		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to china=Destination
2	avenge	to-infinitive	magician not said here	magician's brother's death			tree rules
3	go	past	magician not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	visit	to-infinitive	magician not said here	a pious woman			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
5	call	participle		a pious woman not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	magician not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	might	woman		magician	of use	tree rules
8	die		magician's brother				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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