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title: After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master’s, as if it were part of the dance. Who acts: Morgiana, dagger. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its depende
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 142

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After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master’s, as if it were part of the dance.

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**Who acts:** Morgiana, dagger · **What happens:** perform, draw, make, point, be · **To what, where:** several dances, dagger, passes, own breast

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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 (Morgiana, dagger), 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:pg503:34:142
# text = After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master’s, as if it were part of the dance.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	passes	pass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past · perfect | Morgiana | several dances |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Morgiana | Morgiana's dagger |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Morgiana *not said here* | passes |  |  |  | with dagger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pass=Product |
| 4 | **point** | gerund | Morgiana *not said here* | dagger |  | Morgiana's own breast |  | at Morgiana's master; sometimes *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | dagger |  |  |  |  | as part; of the dance | tree rules |

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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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