The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 39

Though he alone knew where to find it, he could only receive it from the hand of another.

Who acts: magician · What happens: know, find, receive · To what, where: powder, hand

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), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 receive	advcl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 find	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 receive	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 receive	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 receive	advmod
13	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 receive	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 receive	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 hand	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	magician			alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	to-infinitive	magician not said here	powder			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	receive	could	magician	powder	the hand of another		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Source

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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