The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 45
Aladdin fearlessly replied: “Deliver me from this place!” whereupon the earth opened, and he found himself outside.
Who acts: Aladdin, earth · What happens: reply, deliver, open, find · To what, where: Aladdin, 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 (Aladdin, earth), 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 3 replied | advmod |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deliver | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deliver | punct |
| 6 | Deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Deliver | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Deliver | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deliver | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deliver | punct |
| 13 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 opened | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 found | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | Aladdin | fearlessly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deliver in a quote | infinitive | Aladdin | this place | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the earth | whereupon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Aladdin | Aladdin | outside property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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