--- title: When he came to himself he told his mother what had passed, and show… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he came to himself he told his mother what had passed, and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were, in reality, precious stones. Who acts: Aladdin, garden. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/47/) [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/) / 47 # The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 47 When he came to himself he told his mother what had passed, and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were, in reality, precious stones. **Who acts:** Aladdin, garden · **What happens:** come, tell, pass, show, gather, be · **To what, where:** Aladdin, mother, lamp, fruits, garden, reality · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, garden), 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:pg503:12:47 # text = When he came to himself he told his mother what had passed, and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were, in reality, precious stones. 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 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 reality reality NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Aladdin | | Aladdin | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin | | Aladdin's mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | | 3 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | | Aladdin's mother | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 4 | **show** | past | Aladdin *not said here* | the lamp | mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lamp=Topic | | 5 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive | | the fruits | | the garden | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the garden | | | reality and precious stones | | | tree rules | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/48/) - ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)