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title: But when the first rays of the rising sun fell on the garden, he saw… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the first rays of the rising sun fell on the garden, he saw the ten sacks all completely filled, standing there in a row, and not a single grain missing. Who acts: first rays, youth, ten sacks. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 52

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But when the first rays of the rising sun fell on the garden, he saw the ten sacks all completely filled, standing there in a row, and not a single grain missing.

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**Who acts:** first rays, youth, ten sacks · **What happens:** rise, fall, see, fill, stand, ray · **To what, where:** garden, ten sacks, row, rising sun

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first rays, youth, ten sacks), 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:pg7277:3304`): 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:pg7277:50:52
# text = But when the first rays of the rising sun fell on the garden, he saw the ten sacks all completely filled, standing there in a row, and not a single grain missing.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
21	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the first rays of the rising sun |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on garden=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | youth | the ten sacks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | participle | the ten sacks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | the ten sacks *not said here* |  |  | a row; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | the rising sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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