The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 263

Aladdin went back to the Princess, saying his head ached, and requesting that the holy Fatima should be fetched to lay her hands on it.

Who acts: Aladdin, head · What happens: go back, say, ache, request, fetch, lay · To what, where: holy Fatima, hands, head · 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, head), 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	Aladdin	aladdin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ached	nsubj
11	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 requesting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 requesting	cc
14	requesting	request	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saying	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fetched	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fatima	det
17	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fatima	amod
18	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fetched	nsubj:pass
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fetched	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 fetched	aux:pass
21	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 requesting	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lay	mark
23	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fetched	xcomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lay	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Aladdin			to the Princess result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to princess=Result
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Aladdin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ache	past	Aladdin's head				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	request	gerund	Aladdin not said here				vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	fetch	should · passive		the holy Fatima			tree rules
6	lay	to-infinitive		Princess's hands	head		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on it=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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