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title: So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Sa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Saphir was very fond a little mirror in a black frame, such as were often brought from Venice. Who acts: princes, Saphir. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 18

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So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Saphir was very fond a little mirror in a black frame, such as were often brought from Venice.

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**Who acts:** princes, Saphir · **What happens:** prevent, place, be, bring · **To what, where:** this, little mirror, little room, Venice

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, Saphir), 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:pg640:701`): 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:pg640:11:18
# text = So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Saphir was very fond a little mirror in a black frame, such as were often brought from Venice.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | princes *= prince* *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | princes *= prince* | a little mirror |  | a little room |  | in a black frame | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme in room=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Saphir |  |  |  |  | of a little room; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past · passive |  | a little mirror *not said here* |  | Venice |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from venice=Initial\_Location |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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