More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 113

Well, any number of gentlemen came from all parts of England, with forefingers cut off, and with diamond rings and all kinds of tongues, wild beasts' tongues and foreign tongues.

Who acts: number · What happens: come, cut off · To what, where: parts, forefingers

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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:pg14241:1514): 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gentlemen	case
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 parts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 parts	det
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 England	case
12	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forefingers	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 forefingers	case
15	forefingers	forefinger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 forefingers	acl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rings	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rings	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 rings	case
21	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rings	compound
22	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 forefingers	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kinds	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 kinds	det
25	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rings	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 tongues	case
27	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kinds	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tongues	punct
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beasts	amod
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tongues	nmod:poss
31	'	's	PART	_	30 beasts	case
32	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kinds	appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tongues	cc
34	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tongues	amod
35	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tongues	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	any number of gentlemen			all parts of England		with forefingers and diamond rings and all kinds of tongues	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location
2	cut off	participle		forefingers and diamond rings and all kinds of tongues not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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