The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 243
The slave said it was the holy woman, curing people by her touch of their ailments, whereupon the Princess, who had long desired to see Fatima, sent for her.
Who acts: slave, matter, woman, people · What happens: say, be, cure, desire, see, send · To what, where: holy woman, people, Princess, Fatima, ailments · 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 (slave, matter, woman, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 curing | punct |
| 10 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 curing | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 touch | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 touch | nmod:poss |
| 14 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ailments | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ailments | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ailments | ailment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 touch | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 desired | punct |
| 19 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 desired | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 desired | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 desired | aux |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 desired | advmod |
| 26 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ailments | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 desired | xcomp |
| 29 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sent | punct |
| 31 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sent | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the slave | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | matter | the holy woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | gerund | the slave not said here | people | by woman's touch of people's ailments | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer people=Source | |||
| 4 | desire | past · perfect · passive | the Princess | long, whereupon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fatima | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fatima=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | send | past | the slave not said here | for woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | touch | woman | people's ailments | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 8 | ail | people | nom ailment «state 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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