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title: His only comfort had been in visits from the Good Queen, who had at… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His only comfort had been in visits from the Good Queen, who had at length put him in the way of meeting his brother. Who acts: only comfort, Good Queen, way, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 21

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His only comfort had been in visits from the Good Queen, who had at length put him in the way of meeting his brother.

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**Who acts:** only comfort, Good Queen, way, Prince · **What happens:** be, put, meet, comfort · **To what, where:** visits, Prince, length, brother

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (only comfort, Good Queen, way, Prince), 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:pg640:1573`): 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:pg640:23:21
# text = His only comfort had been in visits from the Good Queen, who had at length put him in the way of meeting his brother.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Good	Good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Prince's only comfort |  |  | visits |  | from the Good Queen | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect | the Good Queen | Prince |  | length |  | in the way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at length=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | the way *not said here* | Prince's brother |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **comfort** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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