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title: Behind the rock was a cave which it was quite clear was the home of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind the rock was a cave which it was quite clear was the home of some robbers, though not one of the band was there. Who acts: cave, one. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 100

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Behind the rock was a cave which it was quite clear was the home of some robbers, though not one of the band was there.

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**Who acts:** cave, one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rock, home

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, one), 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:pg2435:1240`): 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:pg2435:14:100
# text = Behind the rock was a cave which it was quite clear was the home of some robbers, though not one of the band was there.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	csubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a cave |  |  | the rock |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the home |  |  |  | of some robbers | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | one of the band |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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 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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