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title: She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit he… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil. 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 104

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She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil.

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**Who acts:** Morgiana · **What happens:** fill, go back, have, go · **To what, where:** oil pot, oil jar, large kettle

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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:pg503:34:104
# text = She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	lit	lit	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | Morgiana | Morgiana's oil pot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
| 2 | **go back** | past | Morgiana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the kitchen *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kitchen=Result |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | Morgiana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lit Morgiana's lamp | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the oil jar | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fill** | past |  | a large kettle |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=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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