The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 68

His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request.

Who acts: mother, Aladdin · What happens: hear, burst out, laugh, prevail, go, carry · To what, where: this, Sultan, request

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, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burst	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hearing	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 hearing	mark
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 mother	acl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
8	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 burst	compound:prt
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 burst	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prevailed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 prevailed	cc
13	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 prevailed	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Aladdin	nmod
16	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burst	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prevailed	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prevailed	xcomp
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 Sultan	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sultan	det
23	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carry	cc
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 request	nmod:poss
27	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Aladdin's mother not said here	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	burst out	past	Aladdin's mother				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	Aladdin's mother not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prevail	past	Aladdin at last			upon mother	tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	Aladdin at last not said here		the Sultan		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sultan=Location
6	carry	infinitive	Aladdin at last not said here	Aladdin's request			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme
7	request		Aladdin				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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