The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 114
They journeyed over hill and dale till they came to a place called Goldtown.
Who acts: servants · What happens: journey, come, call · To what, where: hill, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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:pg2435:96): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dale | cc |
| 6 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 place | acl |
| 14 | Goldtown | Goldtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | servants = servant | hill and dale | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | servants = servant | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a place not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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