The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 5
On this the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him, saying, “I am your uncle, and knew you from your likeness to my brother.
Who acts: stranger, I · What happens: be, fall, kiss, say, know · To what, where: famous African magician, stranger, Aladdin, uncle, you, likeness · 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 (stranger, I), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 stranger | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stranger | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 magician | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 magician | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 magician | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 magician | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 magician | amod |
| 10 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 magician | amod |
| 11 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stranger | punct |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | cc |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 kissed | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 uncle | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 uncle | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 uncle | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 uncle | cop |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 knew | cc |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 knew | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 likeness | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 likeness | nmod:poss |
| 34 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knew | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 brother | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knew | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this stranger and a famous African magician | a famous African magician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | this stranger and a famous African magician | on Aladdin's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stranger=Location | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | Aladdin | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | I | your uncle | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | past | you | your likeness | to my brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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