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title: “Not far from here is a lake. — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not far from here is a lake. Who acts: lake. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 77

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“Not far from here is a lake.

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**Who acts:** lake · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake), 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:pg2435:2930`): 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:pg2435:33:77
# text = “Not far from here is a lake.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | a lake |  |  |  |  | far *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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