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title: She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and ask… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die. Who acts: Morgiana. 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 62

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She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die.

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**Who acts:** Morgiana · **What happens:** carry, return, ask, give, die · **To what, where:** lozenges, next day weeping, essence

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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 (Morgiana), 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:pg503:34:62
# text = She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lozenges	lozenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	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 | **carry** | past | Morgiana | the lozenges |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lozenge=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Morgiana *not said here* | next day weeping |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Morgiana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a essence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | participle |  | a essence *not said here* | a essence |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient |
| 5 | **die** | to-infinitive |  | a essence *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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