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title: Now, in the depths of the forest where the eagle had built his nest,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, in the depths of the forest where the eagle had built his nest, there ran a stream whose waters were poisonous, and on the banks of this stream dwelt a horrible lindworm with seven heads. Who acts: eagle, stream, waters, horrible lindworm. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 1

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Now, in the depths of the forest where the eagle had built his nest, there ran a stream whose waters were poisonous, and on the banks of this stream dwelt a horrible lindworm with seven heads.

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**Who acts:** eagle, stream, waters, horrible lindworm · **What happens:** build, run, be, dwell · **To what, where:** nest, depths, banks

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, stream, waters, horrible lindworm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:824`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:10:1
# text = Now, in the depths of the forest where the eagle had built his nest, there ran a stream whose waters were poisonous, and on the banks of this stream dwelt a horrible lindworm with seven heads.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · perfect | the eagle | eagle's nest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
| 2 | **run** | past | a stream |  |  | the depths of the forest; there | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | waters |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | a horrible lindworm with seven heads |  |  | the banks of this stream |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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