--- title: The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan's. Who acts: genie, orders, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/113/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/) / 113 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 113 The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan's. **Who acts:** genie, orders, horse · **What happens:** finish, carry, show, carry out, order · **To what, where:** palace, horse This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genie, orders, horse), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:31:113 # text = The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan's. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 genie genie NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 laying laying NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 Aladdin Aladdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · passive | | the palace | | | day | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **carry** | past | the genie | horse | | there | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **show** | past | the genie *not said here* | | horse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **carry out** | past | horse's orders | | | | | to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan; faithfully *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **order** | | horse | | | | | | nom order «communication 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:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/114/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/31/)