The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 246

The false Fatima, who wished for nothing better, consented, but kept his veil down for fear of discovery.

Who acts: false Fatima · What happens: wish, consent, keep down, fear · To what, where: veil, discovery

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 (false Fatima), 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	3 Fatima	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fatima	amod
3	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wished	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 wished	obl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wished	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consented	punct
11	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 better	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wished	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 veil	nmod:poss
16	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	14 kept	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 discovery	case
21	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fear	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	the false Fatima		for nothing	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme
2	consent	participle	the false Fatima not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep down	past	the false Fatima not said here	Fatima's veil	for fear of discovery	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Patient
4	fear			discovery		nom fear «feeling 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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