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title: When the three months were over, Aladdin sent his mother to remind t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the three months were over, Aladdin sent his mother to remind the Sultan of his promise. Who acts: three months, Aladdin, Sultan. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 109

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When the three months were over, Aladdin sent his mother to remind the Sultan of his promise.

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**Who acts:** three months, Aladdin, Sultan · **What happens:** be, send, remind, promise · **To what, where:** mother, Sultan

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

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**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:pg503:12:109
# text = When the three months were over, Aladdin sent his mother to remind the Sultan of his promise.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the three months |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's mother |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* |  | the Sultan of Sultan's promise |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient |
| 4 | **promise** |  | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «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 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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