The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 96
“Fear nothing,” Aladdin said to her; “you are my wife, promised to me by your unjust father, and no harm shall come to you.”
Who acts: Aladdin, genie, wife, harm · What happens: say, be, promise, come · To what, where: genie, wife, Aladdin · 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, wife, harm), 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 | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | compound |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 promised | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wife | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 promised | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 promised | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 father | amod |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 promised | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 harm | det |
| 27 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 come | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | genie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | genie | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | my wife | Aladdin | by your unjust father | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | shall | no harm | genie | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_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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