The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 56
“Ask not, but eat,” replied Aladdin.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: not ask, eat, reply · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Ask | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 eat | cc |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ask | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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