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title: He saw, too, the Bad One sitting in the midst of his treasures eatin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw, too, the Bad One sitting in the midst of his treasures eating his dinner, and drinking something out of a horn. Who acts: sight, Bad One. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 12

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He saw, too, the Bad One sitting in the midst of his treasures eating his dinner, and drinking something out of a horn.

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**Who acts:** sight, Bad One · **What happens:** see, sit, eat, drink, treasure · **To what, where:** Bad One, midst, dinner, something, horn

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Bad One), 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:pg3282:575`): 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:pg3282:7:12
# text = He saw, too, the Bad One sitting in the midst of his treasures eating his dinner, and drinking something out of a horn.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | sight | the Bad One |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the Bad One *not said here* |  |  | the midst of sight's treasures |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | the Bad One *not said here* | sight's dinner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | the Bad One *not said here* | something |  | a horn |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | sight |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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