The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 253

He begged to know what was amiss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoiled for the want of a roc’s egg hanging from the dome.

Who acts: Aladdin, Princess, egg · What happens: beg, know, be, tell, spoil, hang · To what, where: Aladdin, pleasure, dome, hall, egg · 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 (Aladdin, Princess, egg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:983): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 amiss	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 amiss	cop
7	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 spoiled	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pleasure	det:predet
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pleasure	nmod:poss
16	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spoiled	nsubj:pass
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hall	det
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pleasure	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spoiled	aux:pass
21	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 want	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 want	det
24	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spoiled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 egg	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 roc	det
27	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 egg	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 roc	case
29	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	nmod
30	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 egg	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 dome	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dome	det
33	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hanging	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Aladdin					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past					amiss property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Princess		Aladdin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	spoil	past · passive		Princess's pleasure in the hall			for the want of a roc's egg	tree rules
6	hang	gerund	a roc's egg not said here			the dome		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	please		Princess			the hall		nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place
8	want			a roc's egg				nom want «state 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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