The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 53

She fainted away, but Aladdin, snatching the lamp, said boldly: “Fetch me something to eat!”

Who acts: genie, Aladdin · What happens: faint away, snatch, say, fetch, eat · To what, where: lamp, something, Aladdin · 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 (genie, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fainted	nsubj
2	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 fainted	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snatching	punct
8	snatching	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Aladdin	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lamp	det
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatching	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Aladdin	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fainted	conj
13	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 said	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Fetch	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Fetch	punct
16	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Fetch	obj
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 Fetch	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 something	acl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Fetch	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	faint away	past	genie			away property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	snatch	gerund	Aladdin not said here	the lamp			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	Aladdin			boldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive		something	Aladdin		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary something=Theme
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/53/