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title: “Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin’s palace,” was the reply, “the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin’s palace,” was the reply, “the greatest wonder of the world? Who acts: you. 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 163

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“Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin’s palace,” was the reply, “the greatest wonder of the world?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not hear, be, wonder · **To what, where:** reply, world · **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 (you), 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:pg503:12:163
# text = “Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin’s palace,” was the reply, “the greatest wonder of the world?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | of Aladdin  Prince's palace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of palace=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  | the reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *in a quote* |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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