--- title: She cherished the basket and the egg as her chiefest treasures, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She cherished the basket and the egg as her chiefest treasures, and had a golden case made for the basket, so that when the time came to lay the egg in it, it might not risk any harm. Who acts: woman, time, basket. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time, basket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:945`): 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:pg641:12:35 # text = She cherished the basket and the egg as her chiefest treasures, and had a golden case made for the basket, so that when the time came to lay the egg in it, it might not risk any harm. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cherished cherish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 chiefest chief ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 risk risk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cherish** | past | woman | the basket and the egg | | | | as woman's chiefest treasures | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | woman *not said here* | a golden case | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a golden case *not said here* | | | | for the basket | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for basket=Asset | | 4 | **come** | past | the time | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | the egg | | basket | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in it=Destination | | 6 | **not** **risk** | might | basket | any harm | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Pivot | | 7 | **treasure** | | woman | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/36/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)