The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 252
After this the Princess could think of nothing but the roc’s egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humor.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: think, return, find · To what, where: hunting, Princess, ill humor
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 (Aladdin), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 egg | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roc | det |
| 11 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 egg | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 roc | case |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 returned | advmod |
| 17 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hunting | case |
| 20 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 humor | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 humor | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 ill | advmod |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 humor | amod |
| 28 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | after this Princess | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Aladdin | hunting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Aladdin | Princess | a ill humor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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