The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 98
At the appointed hour the genie fetched in the shivering bridegroom, laid him in his place, and transported the bed back to the palace.
What happens: appoint, fetch, lay, transport · To what, where: genie, Aladdin, place, bed
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genie | det |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | appos |
| 7 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 genie | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bridegroom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridegroom | det |
| 10 | shivering | shivering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bridegroom | amod |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fetched | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 transported | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 transported | cc |
| 20 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laid | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bed | det |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transported | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 transported | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fetch | participle | the genie not said here | in the shivering bridegroom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's place | hour | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 4 | transport | past | the bed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bed=Experiencer |
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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