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title: They had one little daughter, whom they had named ‘Rosanella,’ becau… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had one little daughter, whom they had named ‘Rosanella,’ because she had a little pink rose printed upon her white throat. Who acts: husband, daughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 106

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They had one little daughter, whom they had named ‘Rosanella,’ because she had a little pink rose printed upon her white throat.

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**Who acts:** husband, daughter · **What happens:** have, name, print · **To what, where:** one little daughter, little pink rose

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, daughter), 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:pg7277:609`): 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:pg7277:8:106
# text = They had one little daughter, whom they had named ‘Rosanella,’ because she had a little pink rose printed upon her white throat.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Rosanella	Rosanella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | husband | one little daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | past · perfect | husband | one little daughter |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | daughter | a little pink rose |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |
| 4 | **print** | participle |  | a little pink rose *not said here* |  |  |  | upon daughter's white throat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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