---
title: There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon, Allah-ed-din. Who acts: both, I, Aladdin. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/) / 7

# English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon, Allah-ed-din.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** both, I, Aladdin · **What happens:** be, beg, pardon · **To what, where:** Aladdin, pardon

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, I, Aladdin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:67:7
# text = There is much in both that is similar to Aladdin, I beg his pardon, Allah-ed-din.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | both |  | Aladdin |  |  | similar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | Aladdin's pardon |  |  |  | Allah ed din *obl* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 4 | **pardon** |  | Aladdin |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/6/)
- next →: [XVIII. the Three Bears., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/68/1/)
- ↑ back to [XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/)