The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 242

When he got to the palace there was such a noise going on round him that the Princess bade her slave look out of the window and ask what was the matter.

Who acts: magician, Princess bade · What happens: get, be, go on, look out, ask · To what, where: noise, window, matter · 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, Princess bade), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	advcl
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 noise	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noise	det
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 got	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 going	compound:prt
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 look	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bade	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 bade	compound
19	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	nsubj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 slave	nmod:poss
21	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bade	conj
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 window	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 window	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ask	cc
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 look	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 matter	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 matter	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 matter	det
32	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ask	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	magician	such noise		to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
2	be	past	magician not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	gerund	magician not said here			round magician	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look out	infinitive	the Princess bade and palace's slave	the window			tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the Princess bade and palace's slave not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		the matter			tree rules

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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