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title: “What have I done, uncle?” he said piteously; whereupon the magician… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “What have I done, uncle?” he said piteously; whereupon the magician said more kindly: “Fear nothing, but obey me. Who acts: uncle, magician. 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 24

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“What have I done, uncle?” he said piteously; whereupon the magician said more kindly: “Fear nothing, but obey me.

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**Who acts:** uncle, magician · **What happens:** do, say, obey · **To what, where:** uncle, magician · **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 (uncle, magician), 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:pg503:12:24
# text = “What have I done, uncle?” he said piteously; whereupon the magician said more kindly: “Fear nothing, but obey me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | uncle | uncle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | uncle |  |  |  |  | piteously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the magician |  |  |  |  | kindly, whereupon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **obey** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the magician *= magician* |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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