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title: When he took courage to look out from behind the picture, he saw twe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he took courage to look out from behind the picture, he saw twelve eagles flying in. Who acts: dog, twelve eagles. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 75

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When he took courage to look out from behind the picture, he saw twelve eagles flying in.

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**Who acts:** dog, twelve eagles · **What happens:** take, look out, see, fly in · **To what, where:** courage, picture, twelve eagles

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, twelve eagles), 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:pg640:463`): 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:pg640:7:75
# text = When he took courage to look out from behind the picture, he saw twelve eagles flying in.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | dog | courage |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | courage *not said here* |  | the picture |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | dog | twelve eagles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly in** | gerund | twelve eagles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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