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title: The Sultan then turned to Aladdin’s mother, saying: “Good woman, a S… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan then turned to Aladdin’s mother, saying: “Good woman, a Sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty black slaves, led by as many white ones, splendidly dressed. Who acts: Sultan, Good
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 112

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The Sultan then turned to Aladdin’s mother, saying: “Good woman, a Sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty black slaves, led by as many white ones, splendidly dressed.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, Good woman, son · **What happens:** turn, say, remember, send, carry, lead · **To what, where:** promises, Sultan, forty basins, jewels, forty black slaves, many white ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sultan, Good woman, son), 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:pg503:12:112
# text = The Sultan then turned to Aladdin’s mother, saying: “Good woman, a Sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty black slaves, led by as many white ones, splendidly dressed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	advmod	_	_
34	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	basins	basin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	brimful	brimful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
47	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	as	as	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | then | to Aladdin's mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remember** *in a quote* | must | Good woman and a Sultan | Sultan's promises |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 4 | **remember** *in a quote* | future | the Sultan *= sultan* | the Sultan *= sultan* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent my=Theme |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | must | your son | forty basins of gold | the Sultan *= sultan* |  |  | first *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination basin=Theme |
| 6 | **carry** *in a quote* | participle |  | jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | by forty black slaves | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lead** *in a quote* | participle |  | forty black slaves *not said here* |  |  |  | by many white ones | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by one=Destination |
| 8 | **dress** *in a quote* | participle |  | many white ones *not said here* |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **promise** *in a quote* |  | 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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