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title: To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death. Who acts: strange manner, Cassim. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its depe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 71

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To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death.

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**Who acts:** strange manner, Cassim · **What happens:** be, go, dress, discover, kill, talk · **To what, where:** city

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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 (strange manner, 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:pg503:34:71
# text = To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	artful	artful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	discover	discover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	_
32	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | to this end | bold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | must |  |  |  | the city |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **dress** | participle |  | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | as a traveler | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **discover** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **talk** |  | the strange manner of Cassim's death |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **die** |  | Cassim |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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