The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 80
Now I pray you to forgive not me alone, but my son Aladdin.”
Who acts: I · What happens: pray, not forgive · To what, where: you, me
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 (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pray | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pray | nsubj |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pray | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 forgive | mark |
| 6 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | advcl |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 forgive | advmod |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 forgive | obl |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 forgive | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 son | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obl |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aladdin | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | you | now | my son obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not forgive | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | alone property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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