The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 46
As soon as his eyes could bear the light he went home, but fainted on the threshold.
Who acts: eyes, Aladdin · What happens: bear, go, faint · To what, where: light, threshold
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 (eyes, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 bear | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bear | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | aux |
| 7 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bear | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 light | acl:relcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fainted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 fainted | cc |
| 15 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 threshold | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 threshold | det |
| 18 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fainted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | Aladdin's eyes | the light | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Aladdin | the light not said here | home property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | |||
| 3 | faint | past | Aladdin's eyes not said here | the threshold | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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