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title: But Aladdin refused, saying, “I must build a palace fit for her,” an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Aladdin refused, saying, “I must build a palace fit for her,” and took his leave. Who acts: Aladdin. 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 131

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But Aladdin refused, saying, “I must build a palace fit for her,” and took his leave.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin · **What happens:** refuse, say, build, take · **To what, where:** palace fit, leave · **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 (Aladdin), 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:pg503:12:131
# text = But Aladdin refused, saying, “I must build a palace fit for her,” and took his leave.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Aladdin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **build** *in a quote* | must | Aladdin | a palace fit |  |  |  | for Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fit=Product for she=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **take** | past | Aladdin *not said here* | Aladdin's leave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |

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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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