The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 81
The Sultan asked her kindly what she had in the napkin, whereupon she unfolded the jewels and presented them.
Who acts: Sultan, woman · What happens: ask, have, unfold, present · To what, where: woman, napkin, jewels
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 (Sultan, woman), 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 | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 asked | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 napkin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 napkin | det |
| 11 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unfolded | punct |
| 13 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 unfolded | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unfolded | nsubj |
| 15 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jewels | det |
| 17 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unfolded | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 presented | cc |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unfolded | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 presented | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | woman | the napkin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | unfold | past | woman | the jewels | whereupon property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient | |||
| 4 | present | past | woman not said here | jewels = jewel | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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