The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 26

At the word treasure Aladdin forgot his fears, and grasped the ring as he was told, saying the names of his father and grandfather.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: forget, grasp, tell, say, fear, name · To what, where: fears, word treasure, ring, Aladdin, names, father · 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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 treasure	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 treasure	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	compound
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obl
5	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fears	nmod:poss
8	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgot	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grasped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grasped	cc
11	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgot	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grasped	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 grasped	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 told	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 names	det
21	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saying	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 names	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grandfather	cc
26	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 father	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	forget	past	Aladdin	Aladdin's fears	the word treasure	tree rules
2	grasp	past	Aladdin not said here	the ring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Aladdin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	gerund		the names of Aladdin's father and grandfather		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
5	fear		Aladdin			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	name			Aladdin's father and grandfather		nom name «communication 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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