English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 7
There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon, Allah-ed-din.
Who acts: both, I, Aladdin · What happens: be, beg, pardon · To what, where: Aladdin, pardon
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, I, Aladdin), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 similar | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 similar | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 similar | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 similar | cop |
| 8 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Aladdin | case |
| 10 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 similar | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beg | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 beg | nsubj |
| 13 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beg | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 din | punct |
| 17 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 din | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Allah | punct |
| 19 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 din | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ed | punct |
| 21 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beg | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | both | Aladdin | similar property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | present | I | Aladdin's pardon | Allah ed din obl | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | |||
| 4 | pardon | Aladdin | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/7/