The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 257
“Wretch!” he cried, “is it not enough that I have done everything for you, but you must command me to bring my master and hang him up in the midst of this dome?
Who acts: wretch, shriek, you · What happens: cry, not be, do, command, bring, hang up · To what, where: Wretch, everything, master, midst · 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 (wretch, shriek, you), 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 | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 2 | Wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enough | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enough | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 enough | advmod |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 enough | advcl |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 done | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 command | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 command | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 command | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 command | aux |
| 24 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 command | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 command | xcomp |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 master | nmod:poss |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hang | cc |
| 31 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bring | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hang | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 hang | compound:prt |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 midst | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 midst | det |
| 36 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hang | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 dome | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 dome | det |
| 39 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 midst | nmod |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | wretch | Wretch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | shriek | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | wretch | everything | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | command in a quote | must | you | wretch | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hang up in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | wretch | the midst of this dome | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in midst=Destination |
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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