The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 258

You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes, but that this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician, whom you destroyed.

Who acts: You, request · What happens: deserve, burnt, not come, destroy

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 (You, request), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 deserve	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wife	cc
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 palace	cc
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palace	nmod:poss
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	conj
8	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 burnt	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 burnt	aux:pass
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 deserve	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 ashes	case
13	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burnt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 request	det
18	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 deserve	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 destroyed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 destroyed	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brother	det
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 destroyed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 magician	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 magician	det
31	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 magician	amod
32	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brother	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 destroyed	punct
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 destroyed	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 destroyed	nsubj
36	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deserve	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	You		tree rules
2	burnt	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here	to ashes	tree rules
3	not come	present · do-support	this request	from you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location
4	destroy	past	you	from the brother of the African magician	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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