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title: In her excitement she never gave a thought to the rough clothes she… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In her excitement she never gave a thought to the rough clothes she had worn the day before, which had disappeared as if by magic during the night. Who acts: Elsa, rough clothes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 96

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In her excitement she never gave a thought to the rough clothes she had worn the day before, which had disappeared as if by magic during the night.

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**Who acts:** Elsa, rough clothes · **What happens:** not give, wear, disappear, excite · **To what, where:** thought, rough clothes, excitement

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa, rough clothes), 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:pg641:106`): 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:pg641:2:96
# text = In her excitement she never gave a thought to the rough clothes she had worn the day before, which had disappeared as if by magic during the night.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | past | Elsa | a thought | the rough clothes | Elsa's excitement |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to clothes=Recipient |
| 2 | **wear** | past · perfect | Elsa | the rough clothes *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 3 | **disappear** | past · perfect | the rough clothes |  |  |  | night | by magic | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **excite** |  | Elsa |  |  |  |  |  | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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