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title: Here was a deep, deep trench that girdled it the whole way round, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was a deep, deep trench that girdled it the whole way round, and there was only a single bridge by which the trench could be crossed. Who acts: deep deep trench, single bridge. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 42

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Here was a deep, deep trench that girdled it the whole way round, and there was only a single bridge by which the trench could be crossed.

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**Who acts:** deep deep trench, single bridge · **What happens:** be, girdle, cross · **To what, where:** trench

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (deep deep trench, single bridge), 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:pg641:1598`): 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:pg641:19:42
# text = Here was a deep, deep trench that girdled it the whole way round, and there was only a single bridge by which the trench could be crossed.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	girdled	girdle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a deep deep trench |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **girdle** | past | a deep deep trench | trench |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | a single bridge |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | could · passive | a single bridge | the trench |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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 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.

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