The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 47
When he came to himself he told his mother what had passed, and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were, in reality, precious stones.
Who acts: Aladdin, garden · What happens: come, tell, pass, show, gather, be · To what, where: Aladdin, mother, lamp, fruits, garden, reality · 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, garden), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 passed | aux |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gathered | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fruits | det |
| 21 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gathered | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gathered | aux |
| 24 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 showed | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 garden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gathered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reality | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 reality | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 reality | cop |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reality | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 reality | case |
| 33 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stones | punct |
| 35 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stones | amod |
| 36 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 reality | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Aladdin | Aladdin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Aladdin's mother | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | show | past | Aladdin not said here | the lamp | mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lamp=Topic | |||
| 5 | gather | past · perfect · passive | the fruits | the garden | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the garden | reality and precious stones | tree rules |
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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