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title: You must then demand as much wood as three mules can carry, and a gr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You must then demand as much wood as three mules can carry, and a great cauldron, and must shut yourself up in a room with the Sultan, and when the cauldron boils you must throw him into it, and there leave him until his flesh is completely separated from his bones. Who acts: You, three mules, cauld
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 55

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You must then demand as much wood as three mules can carry, and a great cauldron, and must shut yourself up in a room with the Sultan, and when the cauldron boils you must throw him into it, and there leave him until his flesh is completely separated from his bones.

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**Who acts:** You, three mules, cauldron · **What happens:** demand, carry, shut up, boil, throw, leave · **To what, where:** much wood, great cauldron, yourself, room, physician, cauldron

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, three mules, cauldron), 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:pg503:2:55
# text = You must then demand as much wood as three mules can carry, and a great cauldron, and must shut yourself up in a room with the Sultan, and when the cauldron boils you must throw him into it, and there leave him until his flesh is completely separated from his bones.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	boils	boil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
45	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
51	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | must | You | much wood |  |  | then |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Precondition |
| 2 | **carry** | can | three mules | a great cauldron |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shut up** | must |  | yourself |  | a room with the Sultan |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 4 | **boil** | present | the cauldron |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | must | you | physician |  | cauldron |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into it=Result |
| 6 | **leave** | infinitive |  | physician |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **separate** | present · passive |  | physician's flesh |  |  |  | from physician's bones; completely *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from bone=Co-Patient |

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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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