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title: Out of one of the folds of this young man’s turban there peeped the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of one of the folds of this young man’s turban there peeped the corner of a letter! Who acts: corner. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 144

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Out of one of the folds of this young man’s turban there peeped the corner of a letter!

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**Who acts:** corner · **What happens:** peep

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner), 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:pg3282:2992`): 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:pg3282:33:144
# text = Out of one of the folds of this young man’s turban there peeped the corner of a letter!
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	_	14	expl	_	_
14	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past | the corner of a letter |  |  | there |  | out one of the folds of this young man's turban | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out one=Theme |

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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 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.

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