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title: The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys, which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other charming tricks. Who acts: carriage, six blue monkeys. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 146

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The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys, which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other charming tricks.

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**Who acts:** carriage, six blue monkeys · **What happens:** intend, have, turn, dance, do · **To what, where:** carriage, six blue monkeys, summer saults, tight rope, many other charming tricks

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, six blue monkeys), 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:pg540:1108`): 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:pg540:11:146
# text = The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys, which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other charming tricks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	saults	sault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | participle |  | the carriage *not said here* |  |  |  | for the Princess Rosette | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the carriage | six blue monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | could | six blue monkeys | summer saults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sault=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | infinitive | six blue monkeys *not said here* |  |  | a tight rope |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rope=Location |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | six blue monkeys *not said here* | many other charming tricks |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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