The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 38
The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin’s, but a cunning magician, who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp, which would make him the most powerful man in the world.
Who acts: magician, cunning magician · What happens: leave, show, be, read, make · To what, where: Persia, uncle, magic books · 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, cunning magician), 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 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 10 showed | advmod |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 uncle | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uncle | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 uncle | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 uncle | det |
| 15 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Aladdin | case |
| 17 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 uncle | nmod |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Aladdin | case |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 magician | det |
| 22 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 magician | amod |
| 23 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 read | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 read | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 read | aux |
| 27 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 magician | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 books | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 books | nmod:poss |
| 30 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 books | compound |
| 31 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 read | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lamp | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lamp | det |
| 34 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lamp | amod |
| 35 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 books | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 make | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 make | aux |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 showed | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 make | obj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 powerful | advmod |
| 43 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 man | amod |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | xcomp |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 world | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 world | det |
| 47 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 man | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the magician | Persia | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent persia=Theme for ever=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show | past | plainly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | magician | no uncle | of Aladdin | tree rules | |||
| 4 | read | past · perfect | a cunning magician | magician's magic books of a wonderful lamp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | would | a cunning magician | Persia | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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