--- title: In an hour or two, so many were gathered round the cradle, that the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In an hour or two, so many were gathered round the cradle, that the child seemed in danger of being smothered; but the king, who was watching the fairies eagerly, was disturbed to see them looking grave. Who acts: child, king, fairies. 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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 (child, king, fairies), 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:pg3282:2202`): 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:pg3282:24:114 # text = In an hour or two, so many were gathered round the cradle, that the child seemed in danger of being smothered; but the king, who was watching the fairies eagerly, was disturbed to see them looking grave. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 round round ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 smothered smother VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 eagerly eagerly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 disturbed disturb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 xcomp _ _ 42 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past · passive | | many | | | hour | round the cradle | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | the child | | | | | in danger | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in danger=Attribute | | 3 | **smother** | gerund · passive | | danger *not said here* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **watch** | past · progressive | the king | the fairies | | | | eagerly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | | 5 | **disturb** | past · passive | | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | | fairies *= fairy* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | gerund | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | | | | | grave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/115/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/)