The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 259
He is now in your palace disguised as the holy woman--whom he murdered.
Who acts: request · What happens: be, disguise, murder · To what, where: palace, holy woman
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 palace | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 palace | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disguised | obl:agent |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 murdered | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 murdered | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 murdered | nsubj |
| 15 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 woman | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | request | your palace | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disguise | participle | your palace not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | murder | past | request | the holy woman | vn murder-42.1 «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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