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title: She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house. Who acts: Morgiana. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 103

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She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house.

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**Who acts:** Morgiana · **What happens:** see, think, entertain, let · **To what, where:** master, oil merchant, eight robbers, house

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgiana), 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:pg503:34:103
# text = She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	entertain	entertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Morgiana | Morgiana's master |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Morgiana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **entertain** | to-infinitive | Morgiana *not said here* | a oil merchant |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus merchant=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | past · perfect | Morgiana *not said here* | eight robbers |  | master's house |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |

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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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