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title: As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty. Who acts: woman, little gypsy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 171

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As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty.

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**Who acts:** woman, little gypsy · **What happens:** grow, become

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, little gypsy), 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:pg540:3097`): 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:pg540:40:171
# text = As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the little gypsy |  |  |  |  | remarkable *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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