The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 239

He entered her cell and clapped a dagger to her breast, telling her to rise and do his bidding on pain of death.

Who acts: magician · What happens: enter, clap, tell, rise, do, bid · To what, where: cell, dagger, breast, woman, bidding, pain · 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), 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 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cell	nmod:poss
4	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clapped	cc
6	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dagger	det
8	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clapped	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 breast	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breast	nmod:poss
11	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clapped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 telling	punct
13	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 clapped	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 telling	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rise	mark
16	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 telling	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 do	cc
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rise	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bidding	nmod:poss
20	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 pain	case
22	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pain	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past	magician	woman's cell			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cell=Destination
2	clap	past	magician not said here	a dagger	woman's breast		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme to breast=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	magician not said here		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	magician not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	infinitive	magician not said here	magician's bidding		pain of death	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	bid		magician				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	pain			death			nom pain «state 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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