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title: When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away. Who acts: Dame, husband. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 26

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When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away.

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**Who acts:** Dame, husband · **What happens:** set, eat, be, hear, question, go away · **To what, where:** something, adventures, husband

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, husband), 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:pg2435:1435`): 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:pg2435:17:26
# text = When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · perfect | Dame | something |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient something=Result |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Dame *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  | before dame's husband |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | dame |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | dame *not said here* | husband's adventures |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus |
| 5 | **question** *speech: other* | past | dame *not said here* |  | husband |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **go away** | past · perfect | husband |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **adventure** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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 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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