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title: He hastened quickly towards it, and curling himself up in a warm cor… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He hastened quickly towards it, and curling himself up in a warm corner soon fell asleep. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 173

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He hastened quickly towards it, and curling himself up in a warm corner soon fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** hasten, curl up, fall · **To what, where:** place, youth, warm corner

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg641:354`): 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:pg641:4:173
# text = He hastened quickly towards it, and curling himself up in a warm corner soon fell asleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **hasten** | past | youth |  |  | place |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
| 2 | **curl up** | gerund |  | youth |  | a warm corner |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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