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title: He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped wen… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do. Who acts: captain, mules, pretense. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Boo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 93

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He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do.

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**Who acts:** captain, mules, pretense · **What happens:** bring, sup, go, speak, see, tell · **To what, where:** stranger, hall, Morgiana, kitchen, pretense, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, mules, pretense), 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:pg503:34:93
# text = He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	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	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	supped	sup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pretense	pretense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	really	really	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | captain | the stranger |  | captain's hall |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 2 | **sup** | past · perfect | mules *= mule* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | Morgiana | the kitchen |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to morgiana=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | the Captain |  |  | pretense |  | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **see** | gerund | pretense *not said here* |  |  |  | after captain's mules |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* |  | captain's men |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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