---
title: Once home, he said to the genie: “Build me a palace of the finest ma… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once home, he said to the genie: “Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/132/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/) / 132

# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 132

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Once home, he said to the genie: “Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Aladdin · **What happens:** say, build · **To what, where:** genie, palace, Aladdin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:12:132
# text = Once home, he said to the genie: “Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin |  | the genie |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genie=Recipient |
| 2 | **build** *in a quote* | infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | a palace of the finest marble | Aladdin |  |  | other precious stones *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/131/)
- next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/133/)
- ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)