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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 51

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Then I once more thought of attempting to escape; but when I felt the smart of their arrows on my face and hands, which were all in blisters and observed likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.

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**Who acts:** thought, I, face, number, tokens · **What happens:** attempt, escape, feel, be, observe, increase · **To what, where:** blisters, tokens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, I, face, number), 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:pg503:43:51
# text = Then I once more thought of attempting to escape; but when I felt the smart of their arrows on my face and hands, which were all in blisters and observed likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	blisters	blister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
44	tokens	token	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	57	nsubj	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | gerund | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  | then | smart *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | my face and hands and blisters |  |  | blisters |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **observe** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **increase** | past | the number of my enemies |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **give** | past | I | tokens |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent token=Theme |
| 8 | **let** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | tokens *= token* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **know** | infinitive | tokens *= token* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **do** | might | tokens *= token* |  |  |  |  | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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