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title: In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba’s son. Who acts: Baba. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 124

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In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba’s son.

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**Who acts:** Baba · **What happens:** carry away, set up · **To what, where:** many rich stuffs, forest, shop opposite

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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 (Baba), 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:pg503:34:124
# text = In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba’s son.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry away** | past | Baba | many rich stuffs and much fine linen |  | the forest |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme to forest=Destination |
| 2 | **set up** | participle | Baba *not said here* | a shop opposite |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient opposite=Result |

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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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