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title: The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of this deathlike stillness. Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 151

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The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of this deathlike stillness.

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** long, come, relieve · **To what, where:** monotony

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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:pg640:3732`): 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:pg640:48:151
# text = The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of this deathlike stillness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	relieve	relieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monotony	monotony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	deathlike	deathlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | for something | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for something=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **relieve** | infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* | the monotony of this deathlike stillness |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monotony=Experiencer |

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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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