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title: Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, there lived… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, there lived a long time ago a beautiful maiden, who was lovelier than any other girl in the whole tribe. Who acts: Red Indians, beautiful maiden. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 2

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Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, there lived a long time ago a beautiful maiden, who was lovelier than any other girl in the whole tribe.

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**Who acts:** Red Indians, beautiful maiden · **What happens:** dwell, live, be · **To what, where:** North America

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Indians, beautiful maiden), 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:pg640:1891`): 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:pg640:28:2
# text = Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, there lived a long time ago a beautiful maiden, who was lovelier than any other girl in the whole tribe.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Red	Red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present | the Red Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | a beautiful maiden |  |  | North America; there |  | ago, away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a beautiful maiden |  |  |  |  | than any other girl in the whole tribe; lovely *property* | tree rules |

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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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