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title: As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pas… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!” Who acts: Ali. 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 12

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As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!”

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** go, come out, make, pass, close, say · **To what, where:** last, Thieves, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ali), 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:pg503:34:12
# text = As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!”
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Sesame	sesame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | last |  | as the Captain | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in last=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | Ali |  |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | Thieves *= thief* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by Ali | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
| 5 | **close** | past | Ali | the door |  |  | then |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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