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title: Luckily a servant of the princess to whom the park belonged was walk… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily a servant of the princess to whom the park belonged was walking by, and he drove off the dog, and picking up the trembling Gon in his arms, carried him to his mistress. Who acts: park, servant. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependen
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 48

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Luckily a servant of the princess to whom the park belonged was walking by, and he drove off the dog, and picking up the trembling Gon in his arms, carried him to his mistress.

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**Who acts:** park, servant · **What happens:** belong, walk, drive off, pick up, carry · **To what, where:** dog, trembling Gon, arms, Gon, mistress

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (park, servant), 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:pg5615:45`): 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:pg5615:1:48
# text = Luckily a servant of the princess to whom the park belonged was walking by, and he drove off the dog, and picking up the trembling Gon in his arms, carried him to his mistress.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	trembling	trembling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
33	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the park |  |  |  |  | to the princess | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | a servant of the princess |  |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive off** | past | park | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 4 | **pick up** | gerund |  | the trembling Gon |  | Gon's arms |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gon=Topic |
| 5 | **carry** | past | park *not said here* | Gon | Gon's mistress |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mistress=Destination |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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