The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 32
Pour out the oil it contains, and bring it to me.”
Who acts: you, oil · What happens: pour out, contain, bring · To what, where: oil, me
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, oil), 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 | Pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Pour | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oil | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pour | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 contains | nsubj |
| 6 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 oil | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pour | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pour | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | imperative | you not said here | the oil | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | oil | the oil not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot oil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | oil | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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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