The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 76

Next day, at a sign from the Vizier, she went up to the foot of the throne and remained kneeling till the Sultan said to her: “Rise, good woman, and tell me what you want.”

Who acts: woman, Sultan · What happens: go up, remain, say, rise, tell, want · To what, where: kneeling, woman, good woman, Sultan · 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 (woman, Sultan), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sign	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Vizier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Vizier	det
9	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 throne	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 throne	det
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foot	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 remained	cc
21	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
22	kneeling	kneeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 remained	obj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sultan	det
25	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 remained	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Rise	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Rise	punct
31	Rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 said	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Rise	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tell	cc
37	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 Rise	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 want	obj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 want	nsubj
41	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	woman			day	to the foot of the throne	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	remain	past	woman not said here	kneeling				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kneeling=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	the Sultan		woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	rise in a quote	infinitive		good woman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the Sultan = sultan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	want in a quote	present	woman					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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