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title: When he got to the palace there was such a noise going on round him… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got to the palace there was such a noise going on round him that the Princess bade her slave look out of the window and ask what was the matter. Who acts: magician, Princess bade. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 242

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When he got to the palace there was such a noise going on round him that the Princess bade her slave look out of the window and ask what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** magician, Princess bade · **What happens:** get, be, go on, look out, ask · **To what, where:** noise, window, matter · **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 (magician, Princess bade), 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:pg503:12:242
# text = When he got to the palace there was such a noise going on round him that the Princess bade her slave look out of the window and ask what was the matter.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | magician | such noise |  |  |  | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 2 | **be** | past | magician *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | gerund | magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round magician | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look out** | infinitive | the Princess bade and palace's slave | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the Princess bade and palace's slave *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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