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title: Our young traveller entered the town at this juncture, with his agre… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Our young traveller entered the town at this juncture, with his agreeable face and jaunty air, and all at once felt something alight upon his head, which proved to be a snow-white pigeon. Who acts: young traveller, something. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, w
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 62

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Our young traveller entered the town at this juncture, with his agreeable face and jaunty air, and all at once felt something alight upon his head, which proved to be a snow-white pigeon.

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**Who acts:** young traveller, something · **What happens:** enter, feel, alight, prove, be · **To what, where:** town, juncture, something, white pigeon

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young traveller, something), 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:pg7277:713`): 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:pg7277:9:62
# text = Our young traveller entered the town at this juncture, with his agreeable face and jaunty air, and all at once felt something alight upon his head, which proved to be a snow-white pigeon.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	juncture	juncture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	jaunty	jaunty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	alight	alight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Our young traveller | the town |  | this juncture |  | with traveller's agreeable face and jaunty air | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Our young traveller *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **alight** | infinitive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon traveller's head | tree rules |
| 4 | **prove** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a white pigeon |  |  |  |  | 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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