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title: “In which of these jars shall I dip you?” asked Father Gatto, with a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In which of these jars shall I dip you?” asked Father Gatto, with a grin that showed all his sharp white teeth, while his moustaches stood out straight on either side of his face. Who acts: Father, grin, moustaches. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 32

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“In which of these jars shall I dip you?” asked Father Gatto, with a grin that showed all his sharp white teeth, while his moustaches stood out straight on either side of his face.

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**Who acts:** Father, grin, moustaches · **What happens:** dip, ask, show, stand out · **To what, where:** you, sharp white teeth, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, grin, moustaches), 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:pg2435:3180`): 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:pg2435:36:32
# text = “In which of these jars shall I dip you?” asked Father Gatto, with a grin that showed all his sharp white teeth, while his moustaches stood out straight on either side of his face.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Int	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	Gatto	Gatto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** *in a quote* | shall | Father | you |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme in which=Trajectory |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Father |  |  |  |  | with a grin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **show** | past | a grin | father's sharp white teeth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
| 4 | **stand out** | past | father's moustaches |  |  | either side of father's face |  | out, straight *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |

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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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