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title: At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the r… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the ring, which the magician had forgotten to take from him. Who acts: Aladdin, 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 42

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At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the ring, which the magician had forgotten to take from him.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, magician · **What happens:** clasp, rub, forget, not take · **To what, where:** hands, last, ring

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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, 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:pg503:12:42
# text = At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the ring, which the magician had forgotten to take from him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's hands |  | last |  | in prayer | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund · do-support |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: ring=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | the magician | the ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive | the magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Aladdin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from he=Initial\_Location |

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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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