The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 63
Aladdin was seized by a desire to see her face, which was very difficult, as she always went veiled.
Who acts: desire, face · What happens: seize, see, be, veil · To what, where: Aladdin, face
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 (desire, face), 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 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | aux:pass |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 desire | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 desire | det |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seized | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 difficult | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 difficult | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 difficult | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 difficult | advmod |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 veiled | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 veiled | aux:pass |
| 21 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seized | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | a desire | Aladdin | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a desire not said here | Princess's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess's face | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | veil | past · passive | a desire not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
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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