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title: Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet which could provide as many soldiers as would serve to conquer the earth, and which had been removed by his grandfather to a cellar. Who acts: army, magic cornet, grandfather. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Op
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 102

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Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet which could provide as many soldiers as would serve to conquer the earth, and which had been removed by his grandfather to a cellar.

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**Who acts:** army, magic cornet, grandfather · **What happens:** recollect, hear, provide, serve, conquer, remove · **To what, where:** tales, many soldiers, earth, cellar

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, magic cornet, grandfather), 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:pg3027:1282`): 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:pg3027:20:102
# text = Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet which could provide as many soldiers as would serve to conquer the earth, and which had been removed by his grandfather to a cellar.
1	Vaguely	vaguely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recollected	recollect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cornet	cornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:agent	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recollect** | past | army | some tales |  |  |  | vaguely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | army | some tales *not said here* |  |  |  | about a magic cornet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 3 | **provide** | could | a magic cornet | many soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition soldier=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | would | a magic cornet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conquer** | to-infinitive | a magic cornet *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 6 | **remove** | past · perfect · passive | army's grandfather |  |  | a cellar |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to cellar=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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