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title: His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request. Who acts: mother, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 47

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His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request.

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**Who acts:** mother, Aladdin · **What happens:** hear, burst out, laugh, prevail, go, carry · **To what, where:** this, last, Sultan, request

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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 (mother, Aladdin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2579`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:31:47
# text = His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
16	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | Aladdin's mother *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **burst out** | past | Aladdin's mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | Aladdin's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prevail** | past | Aladdin |  |  | last |  | upon mother | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  | the Sultan |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sultan=Location |
| 6 | **carry** | infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | Aladdin's request |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 7 | **request** |  | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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