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title: Then he added: ‘My king will scold me for my long absence, everyone… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he added: ‘My king will scold me for my long absence, everyone else is housed for the winter, and I am very late. Who acts: serpent, king, I, my. 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 19

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Then he added: ‘My king will scold me for my long absence, everyone else is housed for the winter, and I am very late.

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**Who acts:** serpent, king, I, my · **What happens:** add, scold, house, be, absent · **To what, where:** me, everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (serpent, king, I, my), 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:pg7277:532`): 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:pg7277:8:19
# text = Then he added: ‘My king will scold me for my long absence, everyone else is housed for the winter, and I am very late.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	housed	house	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | serpent |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **scold** | future | My king | me |  |  |  | for my long absence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for absence=Attribute |
| 3 | **house** | present · passive |  | everyone |  |  | winter |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **absent** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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