The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 31
Walk on until you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp.
Who acts: you · What happens: walk on, come, stand, light · To what, where: niche, lighted lamp
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 (you), 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 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 niche | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 niche | det |
| 8 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 terrace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 terrace | det |
| 11 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 niche | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stands | advmod |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 terrace | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lamp | det |
| 15 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lamp | amod |
| 16 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | you | a niche in a terrace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to niche=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | a lighted lamp | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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