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title: Long time ago there lived a King who had three sons; the eldest was… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Long time ago there lived a King who had three sons; the eldest was called Szabo, the second Warza, and the youngest Iwanich. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 3

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Long time ago there lived a King who had three sons; the eldest was called Szabo, the second Warza, and the youngest Iwanich.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** live, have, call · **To what, where:** three sons, eldest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg640:1977`): 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:pg640:30:3
# text = Long time ago there lived a King who had three sons; the eldest was called Szabo, the second Warza, and the youngest Iwanich.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	conj	_	_
21	Warza	Warza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	orphan	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	conj	_	_
26	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	orphan	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a King |  |  | there |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | a King | three sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | the eldest |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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