--- title: They cast anchor in a little bay, and the princess made haste to dis… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They cast anchor in a little bay, and the princess made haste to disembark with Sunlight, but, before leaving the ship, she tied to her belt a pair of tiny gold slippers, adorned with precious stones. Who acts: sails, princess. 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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 (sails, princess), 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:pg641:3316`): 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:pg641:39:83 # text = They cast anchor in a little bay, and the princess made haste to disembark with Sunlight, but, before leaving the ship, she tied to her belt a pair of tiny gold slippers, adorned with precious stones. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anchor anchor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 disembark disembark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Sunlight Sunlight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cast** | past | sails *= sail* | anchor | | a little bay | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme in bay=Destination | | 2 | **make** | past | the princess | haste | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | | 3 | **disembark** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | haste *not said here* | | | | with Sunlight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | gerund | princess *not said here* | the ship | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | | 5 | **tie** | past | princess | a pair of tiny gold slippers | | | | to princess's belt | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pair=Patient to belt=Co-Patient | | 6 | **adorn** | participle | | tiny gold slippers *not said here* | | | | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/84/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/)