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title: He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses. Who acts: Ali, rich bales. 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 17

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He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses.

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**Who acts:** Ali, rich bales · **What happens:** see, pile · **To what, where:** rich bales, heaps, all

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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 (Ali, rich bales), 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:pg503:34:17
# text = He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	brocades	brocade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ali | rich bales of merchandise and silk and stuff brocades |  | heaps |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bale=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pile** | participle · passive | rich bales of merchandise and silk and stuff brocades *not said here* | all |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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