The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 55

Aladdin’s mother, when she came to herself, said: “Whence comes this splendid feast?”

Who acts: mother · What happens: come, say · To what, where: mother, splendid feast · 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 (mother), 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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Aladdin	case
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mother	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
14	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	15 comes	advmod
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 feast	det
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feast	amod
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	mother		mother		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	past	Aladdin's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present		this splendid feast		whence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feast=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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