The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 54
The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine.
Who acts: genie, twelve silver plates · What happens: return, contain · To what, where: two bottles, rich meats
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, twelve silver plates), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 genie | det |
| 2 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bowl | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bowl | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowl | compound |
| 7 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plates | punct |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 plates | nummod |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plates | compound |
| 11 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bowl | conj |
| 12 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 plates | acl |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meats | amod |
| 14 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 containing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cups | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 cups | nummod |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cups | compound |
| 18 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meats | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bottles | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bottles | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 bottles | nummod |
| 22 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wine | case |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottles | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the genie | two bottles of wine | with a silver bowl and twelve silver plates | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | twelve silver plates not said here | rich meats and two silver cups | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meat=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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