The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 267
“Not so,” replied Aladdin, “but a wicked magician,” and told her of how she had been deceived.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: reply, tell, deceive · To what, where: woman · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 magician | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 magician | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 magician | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 magician | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 magician | amod |
| 13 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Aladdin | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 magician | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Aladdin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 deceived | mark |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 deceived | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 deceived | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 deceived | aux:pass |
| 24 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 told | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Aladdin not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | deceive | past · perfect · passive | woman | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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