The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 24

“What have I done, uncle?” he said piteously; whereupon the magician said more kindly: “Fear nothing, but obey me.

Who acts: uncle, magician · What happens: do, say, obey · To what, where: uncle, 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 (uncle, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 uncle	punct
7	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	17 said	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 magician	det
16	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 kindly	advmod
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 nothing	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 nothing	punct
22	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	compound
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 obey	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 obey	cc
26	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 nothing	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 obey	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · perfect	uncle	uncle		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	uncle		piteously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the magician		kindly, whereupon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	obey in a quote	infinitive		the magician = magician		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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