The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 51

As it was very dirty she began to rub it, that it might fetch a higher price.

Who acts: cotton, child · What happens: be, begin, rub, fetch · To what, where: cotton, higher price

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 (cotton, child), 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	SCONJ	_	5 dirty	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dirty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dirty	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rub	mark
9	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rub	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fetch	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	aux
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rub	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 price	det
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 price	amod
18	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	cotton		dirty property	tree rules
2	begin	past	child			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	rub	to-infinitive	child not said here	cotton		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	fetch	might	cotton	a higher price		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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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