The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 37
The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on to the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place.
Who acts: magician, stone · What happens: fly, throw, say, roll back · To what, where: terrible passion, more powder, fire, something, place · 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 (magician, stone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 passion | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 passion | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passion | amod |
| 7 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throwing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throwing | cc |
| 10 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 powder | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 powder | amod |
| 13 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rolled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rolled | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolled | nsubj |
| 26 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 rolled | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 place | nmod:poss |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the magician | into a terrible passion result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | the magician not said here | some more powder | the fire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | magician | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | roll back | past | the stone | stone's place | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=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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