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title: Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim’s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries. Who acts: eyes, Morgiana slave, wife. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 66

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Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim’s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Morgiana slave, wife · **What happens:** bury, follow, weep, tear, stay, utter · **To what, where:** Cassim, grave, hair, home, lamentable cries

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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 (eyes, Morgiana slave, wife), 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:pg503:34:66
# text = Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim’s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	lamentable	lamentable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | eyes *= eye* | Cassim |  |  | then |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cassim=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Cassim's Morgiana slave | Cassim |  | the grave |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tear** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | slave's hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hair=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | past | Cassim's wife |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | Cassim's wife *not said here* | lamentable cries |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |

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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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