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title: He traveled to China to avenge his brother’s death, and went to visi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He traveled to China to avenge his brother’s death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him. Who acts: magician, woman, brother. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 238

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He traveled to China to avenge his brother’s death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him.

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**Who acts:** magician, woman, brother · **What happens:** travel, avenge, go, visit, call, think · **To what, where:** China, death, pious woman, magician · **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, woman, brother), 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:pg503:12:238
# text = He traveled to China to avenge his brother’s death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | magician |  | China |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to china=Destination |
| 2 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | magician *not said here* | magician's brother's death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | magician *not said here* | a pious woman |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | a pious woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | might | woman |  | magician |  |  | of use | tree rules |
| 8 | **die** |  | magician's brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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