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title: Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gol… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home. 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 54

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Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home.

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**Who acts:** Cassim · **What happens:** put, cover, return · **To what, where:** body, other two

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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:pg503:34:54
# text = Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	fagots	fagot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
32	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Cassim | the body |  | the other two |  | of Full horror; on one of Cassim's asses; bags of gold *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme on one=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with some fagots; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fagot=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | Cassim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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