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title: “Even so,” said Aladdin, “but thou canst take me to the palace, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Even so,” said Aladdin, “but thou canst take me to the palace, and set me down under my dear wife’s window.” Who acts: Aladdin, thou. 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 201

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“Even so,” said Aladdin, “but thou canst take me to the palace, and set me down under my dear wife’s window.”

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, thou · **What happens:** say, take, set down · **To what, where:** Aladdin, palace, window · **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 (Aladdin, thou), 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:pg503:12:201
# text = “Even so,” said Aladdin, “but thou canst take me to the palace, and set me down under my dear wife’s window.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | can | thou | Aladdin |  | the palace |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **set down** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | Aladdin |  | my dear wife's window |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under window=Destination |

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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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