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title: They saw Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They saw Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat, and letting them down by a basket into a draw-well, but king nor princes ever saw an opening before in the same place. Who acts: ladies, Seven Inches, king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 94

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They saw Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat, and letting them down by a basket into a draw-well, but king nor princes ever saw an opening before in the same place.

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**Who acts:** ladies, Seven Inches, king · **What happens:** see, hand, let down · **To what, where:** Seven Inches, three princesses, boat, ladies, draw well, opening

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, Seven Inches, 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:pg3454:918`): 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:pg3454:10:94
# text = They saw Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat, and letting them down by a basket into a draw-well, but king nor princes ever saw an opening before in the same place.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Inches	Inches	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
30	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 | ladies *= lady* | Seven Inches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** | gerund | Seven Inches *not said here* | the three princesses |  | the boat |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme out boat=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **let down** | gerund | Seven Inches *not said here* | ladies *= lady* |  | a draw well |  | by a basket | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | king nor princes | a opening |  | the same place | ever | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opening=Stimulus |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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