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title: Aladdin fearlessly replied: “Deliver me from this place!” whereupon… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Aladdin fearlessly replied: “Deliver me from this place!” whereupon the earth opened, and he found himself outside. Who acts: Aladdin, earth. 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 45

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Aladdin fearlessly replied: “Deliver me from this place!” whereupon the earth opened, and he found himself outside.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, earth · **What happens:** reply, deliver, open, find · **To what, where:** Aladdin, place · **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, earth), 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:pg503:12:45
# text = Aladdin fearlessly replied: “Deliver me from this place!” whereupon the earth opened, and he found himself outside.
1	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | fearlessly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **deliver** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Aladdin |  | this place |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **open** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | Aladdin | Aladdin |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |

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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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