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title: Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled. Who acts: peacocks, number. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 15

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Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled.

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**Who acts:** peacocks, number · **What happens:** find, look, assemble · **To what, where:** number

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peacocks, number), 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:pg540:1738`): 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:pg540:21:15
# text = Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | peacocks *= peacock* | a number of miserable looking men |  | here |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent number=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **assemble** | participle | a number of miserable looking men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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