The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 89

He rubbed it, and the genie appeared, saying, “What is thy will?”

Who acts: Aladdin, genie · What happens: rub, appear, say · To what, where: lamp · 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 (Aladdin, genie), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 appeared	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genie	det
7	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	nsubj
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 appeared	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 What	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 What	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 saying	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 will	cop
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 will	nmod:poss
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 What	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rub	past	Aladdin	lamp	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	appear	past	the genie		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the genie not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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