The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 84
The Vizier, who wanted her for his own son, begged the Sultan to withhold her for three months, in the course of which he hoped his son would contrive to make him a richer present.
Who acts: Vizier, Sultan, son · What happens: want, beg, withhold, hope, contrive, make · To what, where: Princess, Sultan, course, richer present · 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 (Vizier, Sultan, son), 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 Vizier | det |
| 2 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Vizier | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vizier | punct |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 withhold | mark |
| 16 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begged | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 withhold | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 months | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 months | nummod |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 withhold | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 course | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 course | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 course | det |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 withhold | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hoped | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hoped | nsubj |
| 28 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 course | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 contrive | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 contrive | aux |
| 32 | contrive | contrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hoped | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 contrive | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 present | det |
| 37 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 present | amod |
| 38 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Vizier | Princess | for Sultan's own son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Vizier | the Sultan | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | withhold not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Vizier not said here | Princess | the course | month | tree rules | ||
| 4 | hope | past | Sultan | of the course | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | contrive | would | Sultan's son | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | Sultan's son not said here | a richer present | Sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary present=Product |
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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