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title: Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each man: “As soon as I throw some stones from the window of the chamber where I lie, cut the jars open with your knives and come out, and I will be with you in a trice.” Who acts: captain, jars. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by And
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 94

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Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each man: “As soon as I throw some stones from the window of the chamber where I lie, cut the jars open with your knives and come out, and I will be with you in a trice.”

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**Who acts:** captain, jars · **What happens:** begin, end, say, throw, lie, cut · **To what, where:** first jar, last, man, stones, window, trice · **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, jars), 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:pg503:34:94
# text = Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each man: “As soon as I throw some stones from the window of the chamber where I lie, cut the jars open with your knives and come out, and I will be with you in a trice.”
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	As	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
36	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	out	out	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	cop	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	conj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	trice	trice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | captain *not said here* |  |  | the first jar |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | captain *not said here* |  |  | the last |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | captain |  | each man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | present | captain | some stones |  | the window of the chamber |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from window=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cut** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | a trice |  | soon *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **open** *in a quote* | present | the jars |  |  |  |  | with your knives | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | the jars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | future | captain |  |  |  |  | with each man *= man* | 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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