--- title: The palace was finished by the next day, and the genie carried him t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The palace was finished by the next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin’s palace to the Sultan’s. Who acts: genie, orders, horse. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/135/) [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/) / 135 # The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 135 The palace was finished by the next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin’s palace to the Sultan’s. **Who acts:** genie, orders, horse · **What happens:** finish, carry, show, carry out, order · **To what, where:** palace, horse 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 (genie, orders, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:12:135 # text = The palace was finished by the next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin’s palace to the Sultan’s. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 genie genie NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 laying laying NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 Aladdin Aladdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · passive | | the palace | | | day | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **carry** | past | the genie | horse | | there | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **show** | past | the genie *not said here* | | horse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **carry out** | past | horse's orders | | | | | to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan; faithfully *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **order** | | horse | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/136/) - ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)