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title: He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 87

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He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** return, order, go, neighbor, buy, be · **To what, where:** eight leather jars, men, neighboring villages, nineteen mules

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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 (captain), 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:pg503:34:87
# text = He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | captain | eight leather jars |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | captain *not said here* |  | captain's men |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* |  |  | the neighboring villages |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | infinitive | captain *not said here* | nineteen mules |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of oil; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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