The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 71
The Grand Vizier and the lords of council had just gone in as she entered the hall and placed herself in front of the Sultan.
Who acts: Grand Vizier, mother · What happens: go in, enter, place · To what, where: hall, mother, front
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 (Grand Vizier, mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Vizier | det |
| 2 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vizier | amod |
| 3 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lords | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lords | det |
| 6 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Vizier | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 council | case |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lords | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 gone | advmod |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 gone | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 entered | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entered | conj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 placed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 front | case |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sultan | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sultan | det |
| 25 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 front | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past · perfect | the Grand Vizier and the lords of council | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | mother | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | past | mother not said here | mother | front of the Sultan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in front=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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