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title: The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel. Who acts: Captain. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 88

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The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel.

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**Who acts:** Captain · **What happens:** put, rub · **To what, where:** one, each, outside, full vessel

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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:pg503:34:88
# text = The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
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	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the Captain | one of captain's men |  | each |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund | the Captain *not said here* | the outside of the jars |  | the full vessel |  | with oil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent outside=Destination with oil=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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