The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 40
He had picked out the foolish Aladdin for this purpose, intending to get the lamp and kill him afterward.
What happens: pick out, intend, get, kill · To what, where: magician, lamp
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | aux |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Aladdin | det |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Aladdin | amod |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 purpose | det |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 intending | punct |
| 12 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 picked | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 intending | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lamp | det |
| 16 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kill | cc |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 18 kill | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | past · perfect · passive | magician | for this purpose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary aladdin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | magician | afterward property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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