The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 87
“Do you not know,” was the answer, “that the son of the Grand Vizier is to marry the Sultan’s daughter to-night?”
Who acts: you, son · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: answer · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 marry | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 marry | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Vizier | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Vizier | det |
| 18 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Vizier | amod |
| 19 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 marry | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answer | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sultan | det |
| 24 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Sultan | case |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 to | punct |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | the answer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the son of the Grand Vizier | night | marry property | tree rules |
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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