The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 25

Beneath this stone lies a treasure which is to be yours, and no one else may touch it, so you must do exactly as I tell you.”

Who acts: treasure, one, you, I · What happens: lie, be, touch, do, tell · To what, where: stone, yours, treasure, you · 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 (treasure, one, you, I), 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	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 stone	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	obl
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treasure	det
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yours	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 yours	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 yours	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	11 yours	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 yours	cop
11	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lies	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 touch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 touch	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touch	nsubj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	aux
18	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lies	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 do	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 touch	conj
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 tell	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 tell	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 do	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present				this stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath stone=Location
2	is a	present	a treasure	yours				tree rules
3	touch	may	no one	treasure				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	do	must	you					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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