--- title: He wandered on, his eyes fixed on the sands, so that he did not see… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He wandered on, his eyes fixed on the sands, so that he did not see the bailiff drive his boat behind a rock, while he changed himself into a heap of wreckage which floated in on the waves. Who acts: boy, bailiff, wreckage. 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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 (boy, bailiff, wreckage), 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:pg3027:2353`): 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:pg3027:36:86 # text = He wandered on, his eyes fixed on the sands, so that he did not see the bailiff drive his boat behind a rock, while he changed himself into a heap of wreckage which floated in on the waves. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sands sand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bailiff bailiff NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 wreckage wreckage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past | boy | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fix** | participle · passive | | boy's eyes | | the sands | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | boy | the bailiff | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **drive** | infinitive | the bailiff *not said here* | boy's boat | | a rock | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme behind rock=Destination | | 5 | **change** | past | boy | boy | | | | into a heap of wreckage *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into heap=Result | | 6 | **float** | past | wreckage | | | the waves | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Trajectory | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/)