The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 36
This Aladdin refused to do until he was out of the cave.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: refuse, not do, be · To what, where: cave
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Aladdin | det |
| 2 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 cave | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cave | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cave | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | this Aladdin | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | this Aladdin not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Aladdin | the cave | tree rules |
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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