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title: So after much consideration he devised a plan for finding out the tr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So after much consideration he devised a plan for finding out the truth. Who acts: enchanter, plan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 98

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So after much consideration he devised a plan for finding out the truth.

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**Who acts:** enchanter, plan · **What happens:** devise, find out · **To what, where:** plan, truth

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter, plan), 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:pg7277:840`): 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:pg7277:11:98
# text = So after much consideration he devised a plan for finding out the truth.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	devised	devise	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	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devise** | past | enchanter | a plan |  |  | after much consideration |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 2 | **find out** | gerund | a plan *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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