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title: Hans, however, found a remedy for this--he simply lifted the whole r… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans, however, found a remedy for this--he simply lifted the whole roof off the barn, and set it down in the field beside. Who acts: Hans. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74

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Hans, however, found a remedy for this--he simply lifted the whole roof off the barn, and set it down in the field beside.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** find, lift, set down · **To what, where:** remedy, whole roof, barn, field

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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:pg5615:1331`): 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:pg5615:12:74
# text = Hans, however, found a remedy for this--he simply lifted the whole roof off the barn, and set it down in the field beside.
1	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	_
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	beside	beside	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Hans | a remedy |  |  |  | for this; however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme for this=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Hans | the whole roof |  | the barn |  | simply *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roof=Theme off barn=Destination |
| 3 | **set down** | past | Hans *not said here* | barn |  | the field |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in field=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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