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title: The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread. Who acts: day, town. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 64

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The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread.

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**Who acts:** day, town · **What happens:** go, open, put, follow · **To what, where:** stall, piece, hand, bade

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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 (day, town), 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:pg503:34:64
# text = The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the day after Morgiana |  |  |  |  | to a old cobbler near the gates of the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cobbler=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **open** | past | the town | cobbler's stall |  |  |  | early *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stall=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | the day after Morgiana *not said here* | a piece of gold |  | cobbler's hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | present | the day after Morgiana *not said here* | bade |  |  |  | with cobbler's needle and thread | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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