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title: He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with g… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests. Who acts: Cassim. 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 38

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He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests.

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**Who acts:** Cassim · **What happens:** rise, set out, load · **To what, where:** ten mules

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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 (Cassim), 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:pg503:34:38
# text = He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Cassim |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set out** | infinitive | Cassim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ten mules | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **load** | participle |  | ten mules *not said here* |  |  |  | with great chests | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chest=Theme |

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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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