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title: Then they all went through the three woods, and when they had passed… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all went through the three woods, and when they had passed the door of the underground passage a great noise was heard, as if the enchanted castle was crumbling to the earth. Who acts: boats, enchanted castle. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 194

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Then they all went through the three woods, and when they had passed the door of the underground passage a great noise was heard, as if the enchanted castle was crumbling to the earth.

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**Who acts:** boats, enchanted castle · **What happens:** go, pass, hear, enchant, crumble · **To what, where:** three woods, door, great noise

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boats, enchanted castle), 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:pg540:148`): 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:pg540:2:194
# text = Then they all went through the three woods, and when they had passed the door of the underground passage a great noise was heard, as if the enchanted castle was crumbling to the earth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | boats *= boat* |  |  | the three woods | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past · perfect | boats *= boat* | the door of the underground passage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a great noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **crumble** | past · progressive | the enchanted castle |  |  |  |  | to the earth *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to earth=Result |

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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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