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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, dead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:1079`): 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:pg503:13:149 # text = “Wait,” he said “I’ll heat you up a bit,” went to the fire, warmed his hand, and laid it on the man’s face, but the dead remained cold. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 heat heat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 38 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 39 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **heat up** *in a quote* | future | man | you | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **go** | past | man *not said here* | | | the fire | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **warm** | past | man *not said here* | man's hand | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **lay** | past | man *not said here* | hand | | the man's face | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination | | 7 | **remain** | past | the dead | | | | | cold *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/150/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)