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title: His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly n… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however, that they should be made after a foreign fashion. Who acts: first care, Tiidu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 36

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His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however, that they should be made after a foreign fashion.

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**Who acts:** first care, Tiidu · **What happens:** be, need, take, make, care · **To what, where:** Tiidu, new clothes, care, clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first care, Tiidu), 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:pg2435:1031`): 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:pg2435:12:36
# text = His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however, that they should be made after a foreign fashion.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	iobj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tiidu's first care |  | Tiidu |  |  | buy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | past | Tiidu | some new clothes |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Tiidu's first care *not said here* | care |  |  |  | however *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | should · passive |  | clothes |  |  | after a foreign fashion |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **care** |  | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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 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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