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title: This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways. Who acts: This, tailor, 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 2

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This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways.

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**Who acts:** This, tailor, Aladdin · **What happens:** grieve, die, not mend, spite · **To what, where:** father, ways, tears

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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 (This, tailor, 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:pg503:12:2
# text = This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past | This | the father |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | past | tailor |  |  |  | yet | in spite of tailor's mother's tears and prayers | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **mend** | past · do-support | Aladdin | tailor's ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | tailor's mother's tears and prayers |  |  |  |  | nom spite «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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