The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 241

Then he went toward the palace of Aladdin, and all the people, thinking he was the holy woman, gathered round him, kissing his hands and begging his blessing.

Who acts: magician · What happens: go, think, be, gather, kiss, beg · To what, where: people, palace, holy woman, hands, blessing · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Aladdin	case
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 people	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thinking	punct
15	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 woman	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 woman	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thinking	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gathered	punct
22	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gathered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kissing	punct
26	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 gathered	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kissing	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 begging	cc
30	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 kissing	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 blessing	nmod:poss
32	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begging	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	magician	all people	the palace of Aladdin	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward palace=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	magician not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	magician	the holy woman				tree rules
4	gather	past	magician not said here				round magician	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kiss	gerund	magician not said here	magician's hands				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
6	beg speech: request	gerund	magician not said here	magician's blessing				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient
7	bless		magician					nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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