The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 93
Aladdin then went to his chamber, where, sure enough, at midnight the genie transported the bed containing the Vizier’s son and the Princess.
Who acts: Aladdin, genie · What happens: go, transport, contain · To what, where: chamber, bed, son
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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sure | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 sure | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 transported | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 midnight | case |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transported | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 genie | det |
| 16 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transported | nsubj |
| 17 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bed | det |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transported | obj |
| 20 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 transported | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Vizier | det |
| 22 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Vizier | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 containing | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Princess | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's chamber | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | transport | past | the genie | the bed | midnight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bed=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | the genie not said here | the Vizier's son and the Princess | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=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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