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title: At any rate, he carried me off at a prodigious speed, and set me gen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At any rate, he carried me off at a prodigious speed, and set me gently down in this very castle of which you are now the master. Who acts: word, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 70

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At any rate, he carried me off at a prodigious speed, and set me gently down in this very castle of which you are now the master.

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**Who acts:** word, you · **What happens:** carry off, set down, be · **To what, where:** me, rate, very castle, master

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, you), 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:pg7277:2707`): 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:pg7277:38:70
# text = At any rate, he carried me off at a prodigious speed, and set me gently down in this very castle of which you are now the master.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | past | word | me |  | any rate |  | at a prodigious speed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **set down** | past | word *not said here* | me |  | this very castle |  | down, gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in castle=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present | you | the master |  |  | now | of this very castle | tree rules |

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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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