More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 38
He could scarcely walk from his toe-nails curling up like ram's horns that had not been cut for many hundred years, and big long hair.
Who acts: Prince, toe nails · What happens: walk, curl up, not cut · To what, where: toe nails, horns
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, toe nails), 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:pg14241:1166): 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 | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 walk | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 walk | advmod |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 nails | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nails | nmod:poss |
| 7 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nails | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 toe | punct |
| 9 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walk | obl |
| 10 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 nails | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 curling | compound:prt |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 horns | case |
| 13 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horns | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 ram | case |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 curling | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cut | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 cut | aux:pass |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 horns | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hair | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hair | cc |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hair | amod |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hair | amod |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nails | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | could | Prince | Prince's toe nails and big long hair | scarcely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nail=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | curl up | gerund | Prince's toe nails and big long hair not said here | like ram's horns | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not cut | past · perfect · passive | ram's horns | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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