The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 74

When the council broke up on the sixth day the Sultan said to his Vizier: “I see a certain woman in the audience-chamber every day carrying something in a napkin.

Who acts: council, Sultan, day · What happens: break up, say, see, carry · To what, where: Vizier, certain woman, audience chamber, something, napkin · 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 (council, Sultan, day), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 broke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 council	det
3	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 broke	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Vizier	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Vizier	nmod:poss
15	Vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 chamber	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chamber	det
25	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chamber	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 audience	punct
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl:unmarked
30	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 day	acl
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 carrying	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 napkin	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 napkin	det
34	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carrying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	break up	past	the council				day	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Sultan		Sultan's Vizier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vizier=Recipient
3	see in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan	a certain woman		the audience chamber	day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	carry in a quote	gerund	every day not said here	something		a napkin		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Value in napkin=Location

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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