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title: There they wore wreaths, gathered nosegays, and sang songs some sad,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There they wore wreaths, gathered nosegays, and sang songs some sad, some merry. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63

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There they wore wreaths, gathered nosegays, and sang songs some sad, some merry.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** wear, gather, sing · **To what, where:** wreaths, nosegays, songs

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg5615:1680`): 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:pg5615:16:63
# text = There they wore wreaths, gathered nosegays, and sang songs some sad, some merry.
1	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	nosegays	nosegay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | eyes *= eye* | wreaths |  | there |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=Source |
| 2 | **gather** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | nosegays |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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 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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