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title: Indeed, he often became quite separated from his nobles and attendan… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, he often became quite separated from his nobles and attendants, and in fact was particularly fond of lonely adventures. Who acts: king. 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
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 2

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Indeed, he often became quite separated from his nobles and attendants, and in fact was particularly fond of lonely adventures.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** become, separate, be · **To what, where:** fact

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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 (king), 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:pg3282:2860`): 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:pg3282:33:2
# text = Indeed, he often became quite separated from his nobles and attendants, and in fact was particularly fond of lonely adventures.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | king |  |  |  |  | indeed, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **separate** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from king's nobles and attendants | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from noble=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | king *not said here* |  |  | fact |  | of lonely adventures; fond, particularly *property* | tree rules |

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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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