The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 4
“I am, sir,” replied Aladdin; “but he died a long while ago.”
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: be, reply, die · To what, where: sir · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sir | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 died | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 while | amod |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 died | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | sir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | past | Aladdin | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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