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title: “I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace.” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace.” Who acts: Aladdin, glory. 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 149

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“I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace.”

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, glory · **What happens:** wish, have, finish · **To what, where:** Majesty, glory, palace

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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, glory), 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:pg503:12:149
# text = “I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | Aladdin | your Majesty |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majesty=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | the glory |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glory=Patient |
| 3 | **finish** *in a quote* | gerund | the glory *not said here* | this palace |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality palace=Eventuality |

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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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