The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 251
“If only a roc’s egg,” replied he, “were hung up from the middle of this dome, it would be the wonder of the world.”
Who acts: roc, middle · What happens: reply, hang up, be · To what, where: middle, wonder · 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 (roc, middle), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 egg | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 roc | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 roc | det |
| 5 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 egg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 roc | case |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 egg | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 egg | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hung | aux:pass |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 hung | compound:prt |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hung | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dome | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dome | det |
| 22 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wonder | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wonder | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wonder | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wonder | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wonder | det |
| 28 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hung | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wonder | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | roc | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hang up in a quote | past · passive | the middle of this dome | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | would | middle | the wonder | of the world | 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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