The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 1

Now, in the depths of the forest where the eagle had built his nest, there ran a stream whose waters were poisonous, and on the banks of this stream dwelt a horrible lindworm with seven heads.

Who acts: eagle, stream, waters, horrible lindworm · What happens: build, run, be, dwell · To what, where: nest, depths, banks

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (eagle, stream, waters, horrible lindworm), 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:pg2435:824): 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 ran	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 depths	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 depths	det
5	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ran	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depths	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 built	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 built	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 built	aux
13	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 forest	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nest	nmod:poss
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 built	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 depths	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 ran	expl
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stream	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 waters	nmod:poss
22	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 poisonous	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 poisonous	cop
24	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stream	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dwelt	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dwelt	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 banks	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 banks	det
29	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dwelt	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 stream	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 stream	det
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 banks	nmod
33	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 lindworm	det
35	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lindworm	amod
36	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dwelt	nsubj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 heads	case
38	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 heads	nummod
39	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lindworm	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect	the eagle	eagle's nest				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	run	past	a stream		the depths of the forest; there	now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Trajectory
3	is	past	waters				poisonous property	tree rules
4	dwell	past	a horrible lindworm with seven heads		the banks of this stream			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location

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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