Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 20

When the woman reached her home, she sat down by her husband's side, and they opened the box; What do you think they found in it?

Who acts: woman, tions, you · What happens: reach, sit down, open, think, find · To what, where: home, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, tions, you), 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:pg18442:1256): 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 side	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 husband	case
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 opened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 opened	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 opened	nsubj
19	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 found	obj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 think	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sat	parataxis
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 think	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the woman	woman's home			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme
2	sit down	past	woman			by woman's husband's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
3	open	past	tions = tion	the box			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
4	think speech: other	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find	past	tions = tion		box		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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