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title: The beasts answered, ‘Duks,’ and everything happened as on the forme… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The beasts answered, ‘Duks,’ and everything happened as on the former day. Who acts: beasts, everything. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 7

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The beasts answered, ‘Duks,’ and everything happened as on the former day.

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**Who acts:** beasts, everything · **What happens:** answer, happen

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, everything), 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:pg5615:192`): 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:pg5615:3:7
# text = The beasts answered, ‘Duks,’ and everything happened as on the former day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Duks	Duks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the beasts |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **happen** | past | everything |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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