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title: At the same time she cautioned him with many angry words against spe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time she cautioned him with many angry words against speaking to a black girl he would most likely meet in the wood. Who acts: Fairy, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 53

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At the same time she cautioned him with many angry words against speaking to a black girl he would most likely meet in the wood.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Prince · **What happens:** caution, speak, meet · **To what, where:** Prince, black girl, wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, 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:pg640:1791`): 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:pg640:25:53
# text = At the same time she cautioned him with many angry words against speaking to a black girl he would most likely meet in the wood.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cautioned	caution	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caution** *speech: other* | past | Fairy |  | Prince |  | time | with many angry words | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a black girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | would | Prince | a black girl *not said here* |  | the wood |  | likely *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-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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