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title: When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stif… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside. Who acts: kettle, 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 105

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When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside.

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**Who acts:** kettle, Morgiana · **What happens:** boil, go, pour, stifle, kill · **To what, where:** enough oil, jar, robber

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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 (kettle, 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:pg503:34:105
# text = When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	boiled	boil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stifle	stifle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past | kettle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Morgiana |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | past | Morgiana *not said here* | enough oil |  | every jar |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme into jar=Destination |
| 4 | **stifle** | to-infinitive | Morgiana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **kill** | infinitive | Morgiana *not said here* | the robber |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn remove-10.1 «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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