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title: A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp’s-nest, manoeuvring his wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp’s-nest, manoeuvring his wasps. Who acts: Drakestail. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 32

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A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp’s-nest, manoeuvring his wasps.

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**Who acts:** Drakestail · **What happens:** meet, manoeuvre · **To what, where:** comrade Wasp’s nest, wasps

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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:pg540:2368`): 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:pg540:31:32
# text = A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp’s-nest, manoeuvring his wasps.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	Wasp’s	Wasp's	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	manoeuvring	manoeuvre	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Drakestail | comrade Wasp’s nest |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **manoeuvre** | gerund | Drakestail *not said here* | Drakestail's wasps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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