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title: For every two springs the horses gave, the giants gave three, and at… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For every two springs the horses gave, the giants gave three, and at last they were only seventy perches off. Who acts: horses, giants. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24

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For every two springs the horses gave, the giants gave three, and at last they were only seventy perches off.

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**Who acts:** horses, giants · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** two springs, three, last

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, giants), 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:pg3454:959`): 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:pg3454:11:24
# text = For every two springs the horses gave, the giants gave three, and at last they were only seventy perches off.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	perches	perch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	off	off	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the horses | every two springs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spring=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the giants | three |  |  | spring |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | horses *= horse* |  |  | last |  | seventy perches *obl:unmarked*; off *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 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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