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title: Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves.” 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 149

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Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves.”

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**Who acts:** you, enemy · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** false oil merchant

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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:pg503:34:149
# text = Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves.”
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Forty	Forty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Thieves	Thief	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at enemy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | enemy | the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves |  |  |  |  | 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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