The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 60
When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on until none were left.
Who acts: virtues, Aladdin · What happens: eat, bring, sell, leave · To what, where: genie, one, none
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 (virtues, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 genie | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 genie | det |
| 7 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eaten | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sold | punct |
| 11 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sold | nsubj |
| 12 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sold | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 plates | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plates | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plates | compound |
| 17 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 on | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 on | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 on | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 sold | advmod |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 left | mark |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 left | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 on | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | virtues = virtue | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | all genie | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sell | past | Aladdin | one of the silver plates | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | none | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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