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title: Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also. Who acts: Baba, Morgiana. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its depend
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 85

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Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also.

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**Who acts:** Baba, Morgiana · **What happens:** dispatch, win, mark, be, put · **To what, where:** robber, Baba, house, red chalk, second messenger

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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 (Baba, 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:pg503:34:85
# text = Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Mustapha	Mustapha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispatch** | past · passive |  | another robber |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **win** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  | Baba |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mark** | past | Baba *not said here* | the house |  | red chalk |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in chalk=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | Morgiana |  |  |  | again | for robbers *= robber*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | past · passive |  | the second messenger |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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