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title: He, however, very well knew, by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He, however, very well knew, by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters, that they were only asleep; and their goblets, wherein still remained some drops of wine, showed plainly that they fell asleep in their cups. Who acts: Scarce, beefeaters, drops, goblets. A sentence of «The Blue Fair
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 57

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He, however, very well knew, by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters, that they were only asleep; and their goblets, wherein still remained some drops of wine, showed plainly that they fell asleep in their cups.

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**Who acts:** Scarce, beefeaters, drops, goblets · **What happens:** know, be, remain, show, fall · **To what, where:** cups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarce, beefeaters, drops, goblets), 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:pg503:665`): 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:pg503:10:57
# text = He, however, very well knew, by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters, that they were only asleep; and their goblets, wherein still remained some drops of wine, showed plainly that they fell asleep in their cups.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	pimpled	pimpled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beefeaters	beefeater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	goblets	goblet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
39	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Scarce |  |  |  |  | by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters; however, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | beefeaters *= beefeater* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | past | some drops of wine |  |  |  | still | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | past | beefeaters's goblets |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fall** | past | drops *= drop* |  |  | beefeaters's cups |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cup=Location |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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