The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 85

The Sultan granted this, and told Aladdin’s mother that, though he consented to the marriage, she must not appear before him again for three months.

Who acts: Sultan, mother · What happens: grant, tell, consent, not appear · To what, where: this, that, mother · 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 (Sultan, mother), 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 granted	nsubj
3	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 granted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 granted	conj
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mother	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Aladdin	case
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 consented	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 consented	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 consented	nsubj
15	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 marriage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 marriage	det
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consented	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 appear	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 appear	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 appear	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 appear	advmod
23	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 consented	conj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 appear	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 appear	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 months	case
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 months	nummod
29	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 appear	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grant	past	the Sultan	this				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Sultan not said here	that	Aladdin's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient that=Topic
3	consent	past	Sultan				to the marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme
4	not appear	must	mother			before Sultan; again; month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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