The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 94
“Take this new-married man,” he said, “and put him outside in the cold, and return at daybreak.”
Who acts: you, man · What happens: take, say, put, return · To what, where: married man, man, cold, daybreak · 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, man), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 married | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 new | punct |
| 6 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cold | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cold | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 return | cc |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 daybreak | case |
| 25 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 return | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this married man | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent man=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | man | the cold | outside property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cold=Destination | |||
| 4 | return in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | daybreak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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