The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 59
“No,” said Aladdin, “since chance hath made us aware of its virtues, we will use it, and the ring likewise, which I shall always wear on my finger.”
Who acts: Aladdin, we · What happens: say, make, use, wear · To what, where: us, chance, ring, finger · 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, we), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 hath | mark |
| 10 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hath | nsubj |
| 11 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 virtues | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 17 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 aware | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 use | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 use | aux |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 use | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ring | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ring | det |
| 26 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 27 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 26 ring | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wear | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 wear | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 wear | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 wear | aux |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 wear | advmod |
| 33 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ring | parataxis |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 finger | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 finger | nmod:poss |
| 36 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wear | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 wear | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · passive | us | aware property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: we=Product | ||||
| 3 | use in a quote | future | we | chance | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | shall | Aladdin | the ring | my finger | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
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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