--- title: Foaming with rage, he tried to press towards Labakan, but the attend… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Foaming with rage, he tried to press towards Labakan, but the attendants threw themselves upon him and held him fast, whilst the king said, “Truly, my dear son, the poor fellow is quite mad. Who acts: Prince, attendants, king, poor fellow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, attendants, king, poor fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:3046`): 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:pg2435:34:96 # text = Foaming with rage, he tried to press towards Labakan, but the attendants threw themselves upon him and held him fast, whilst the king said, “Truly, my dear son, the poor fellow is quite mad. 1 Foaming foam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 press press VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 towards towards ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Labakan Labakan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 30 Truly truly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 vocative _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **foam** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | with rage | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **press** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | Labakan | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent towards labakan=Trajectory | | 4 | **throw** | past | the attendants | attendants *= attendant* | | | | upon Prince | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon he=Destination | | 5 | **hold** | past | the attendants *not said here* | Prince | | | | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the poor fellow | | | | | my dear son *vocative*; mad, truly *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/97/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/)