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title: Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 84

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Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge.

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:3022`): 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:pg641:35:84
# text = Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge.
1	Thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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