--- title: The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms rou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms round his neck; but Aladdin put her away, bidding her leave him, as he had more to do. Who acts: Princess, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/230/) [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/) / 230 # The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 230 The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms round his neck; but Aladdin put her away, bidding her leave him, as he had more to do. **Who acts:** Princess, Aladdin · **What happens:** open, fling, put away, bid, leave, have · **To what, where:** door, Aladdin, arms, Princess, more 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 (Princess, Aladdin), 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:pg503:12:230 # text = The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms round his neck; but Aladdin put her away, bidding her leave him, as he had more to do. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Aladdin Aladdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 Aladdin Aladdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bidding bid VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the Princess | the door | Aladdin | | then | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to aladdin=Recipient | | 2 | **fling** | past | the Princess *not said here* | Princess's arms | | | | round Aladdin's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 3 | **put away** | past | Aladdin | | Princess | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | | 4 | **bid** | gerund | Aladdin *not said here* | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | Aladdin | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | Aladdin | more | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/229/) - next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/231/) - ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)