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title: When he woke up he saw something strange lying on a bank a little wa… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he woke up he saw something strange lying on a bank a little way off, amidst long trails of pink roses. Who acts: hermit. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94

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When he woke up he saw something strange lying on a bank a little way off, amidst long trails of pink roses.

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**Who acts:** hermit · **What happens:** wake up, see, lie · **To what, where:** something, bank

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), 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:pg2435:810`): 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:pg2435:9:94
# text = When he woke up he saw something strange lying on a bank a little way off, amidst long trails of pink roses.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | hermit |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | hermit | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a bank |  | amidst long trails of pink roses; off *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=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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