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title: Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.” Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by And
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 138

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Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.”

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** put, clasp, hang, say, take, let · **To what, where:** head dress, girdle, dagger, Abdallah, tabor, us · **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 (you, us), 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:pg503:34:138
# text = Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.”
1	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
41	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	tabor	tabor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
48	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
52	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a head dress |  | like a dancing girl; Morgiana *vocative*; meanwhile *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination |
| 2 | **clasp** | past | you *not said here* | a girdle |  |  |  | round Morgiana's waist | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | a dagger |  |  |  | with a silver hilt | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient with hilt=Instrument |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Abdallah |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to abdallah=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your tabor |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabor=Theme |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **divert** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | our master |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus master=Experiencer |

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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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