--- title: When it was finished he wanted to keep her hands in his, but she bro… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When it was finished he wanted to keep her hands in his, but she broke from him, and sprang so quickly away among the people that she vanished from his sight. Who acts: King, cook. 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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 (King, cook), 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:pg7277:2904`): 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:pg7277:42:78 # text = When it was finished he wanted to keep her hands in his, but she broke from him, and sprang so quickly away among the people that she vanished from his sight. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 among among ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · passive | | ring | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **want** | past | King | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | cook's hands | | | | in King | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in his=Location | | 4 | **break** | past | cook | | | | | from King | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient | | 5 | **spring** | past | cook *not said here* | | | | | away, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **vanish** | past | cook | | | King's sight | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **sight** | | King | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/79/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)