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title: The captain received me with kindness, and asked me to tell him what… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain received me with kindness, and asked me to tell him what place I came from last; but at my answer he thought I was raving. Who acts: captain, I, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 22

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The captain received me with kindness, and asked me to tell him what place I came from last; but at my answer he thought I was raving.

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**Who acts:** captain, I, my · **What happens:** receive, ask, tell, come, think, rave · **To what, where:** me, place, captain, last, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, I, my), 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:pg503:47:22
# text = The captain received me with kindness, and asked me to tell him what place I came from last; but at my answer he thought I was raving.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	dep	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	raving	rave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the captain | me |  |  |  | with kindness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the captain *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* | place | captain |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | I | place *not said here* |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | captain |  |  | my answer |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **rave** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **answer** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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