More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 121
My! they were big ones, with huge heads and long tusks for teeth.
Who acts: woods · What happens: be · To what, where: big ones
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods), 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:pg14241:646): 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | INTJ | _ | 6 ones | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ones | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ones | cop |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heads | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heads | amod |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ones | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tusks | cc |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tusks | amod |
| 13 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tusks | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | woods = wood | big ones | with huge heads and long tusks for teeth | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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