--- title: It had read everything that was inside it, on the one side, and was… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It had read everything that was inside it, on the one side, and was just going to turn itself round and read from the other side when the Goblin came in and returned the tongue to its owner. Who acts: tub, Goblin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tub, Goblin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:138`): 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:pg5615:2:72 # text = It had read everything that was inside it, on the one side, and was just going to turn itself round and read from the other side when the Goblin came in and returned the tongue to its owner. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 inside inside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 round round ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Goblin Goblin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | past · perfect | tub | everything | | the one side | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | jam | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past · progressive | tub *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive | tub *not said here* | tub | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 5 | **read** | infinitive | tub *not said here* | | | the other side | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from side=Source | | 6 | **come in** | past | the Goblin | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **return** | past | the Goblin *not said here* | the tongue | | tub's owner | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme to owner=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/73/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/)