The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 269
He succeeded the Sultan when he died, and reigned for many years, leaving behind him a long line of kings.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: succeed, die, reign, leave · To what, where: Sultan, long line
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 succeeded | nsubj |
| 2 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 succeeded | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 died | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 succeeded | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reigned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reigned | cc |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 succeeded | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reigned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 reigned | advcl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaving | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 line | amod |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kings | case |
| 22 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 line | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | Aladdin | the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Aladdin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | reign | past | Aladdin not said here | year | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | Aladdin not said here | a long line of kings | behind Aladdin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent line=Theme behind he=Location |
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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