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title: Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jar… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk. 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 89

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Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk.

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**What happens:** load, reach · **To what, where:** nineteen mules, town

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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: 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:pg503:34:89
# text = Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | past · passive |  | the nineteen mules |  |  | then | with seven robbers in jars; the jar of oil *obl* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with robber=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past |  | the town |  |  | dusk |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=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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