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title: The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba. Who acts: Captain, lonely cave. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 122

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The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba.

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**Who acts:** Captain, lonely cave · **What happens:** return, seem, lose, resolve, avenge, kill · **To what, where:** companions, Ali Baba

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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 (Captain, lonely cave), 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:pg503:34:122
# text = The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the Captain |  |  |  |  | to captain's lonely cave *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result |
| 2 | **seem** | past | captain's lonely cave |  |  |  |  | without captain's lost companions; frightful *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **resolve** | participle | the Captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | the Captain *not said here* | companions *= companion* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **kill** | gerund | the Captain *not said here* | Ali Baba |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baba=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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