More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 26
He had marked out a huge old oak, which, thought he, would furnish many and many a good plank.
Who acts: bread · What happens: mark out, think, furnish · To what, where: huge old oak, many good plank
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread), 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:pg14241:876): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 marked | aux |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 marked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oak | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oak | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 furnish | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 furnish | parataxis |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 furnish | aux |
| 16 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 oak | acl:relcl |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plank | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 many | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 many | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plank | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plank | amod |
| 22 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 furnish | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark out | past · perfect | bread | a huge old oak | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | furnish | would | a many good plank | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Recipient |
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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