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title: “See here,” opening the false merchant’s garment and showing the dag… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “See here,” opening the false merchant’s garment and showing the dagger; “see what an enemy you have entertained! Who acts: you, enemy. 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 147

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“See here,” opening the false merchant’s garment and showing the dagger; “see what an enemy you have entertained!

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**Who acts:** you, enemy · **What happens:** see, open, show, entertain · **To what, where:** garment, dagger · **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, enemy), 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:pg503:34:147
# text = “See here,” opening the false merchant’s garment and showing the dagger; “see what an enemy you have entertained!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | you *not said here* | the false merchant's garment |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | you *not said here* | the dagger |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dagger=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **entertain** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a enemy |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=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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