The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 56
“Give me first a kettle and a tripod,” asked the old w omen, and the emperor ordered them to be brought instantly.
Who acts: old w, emperor · What happens: give, ask, order, bring · To what, where: kettle, old w · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old w, emperor), 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:pg2435:877): 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Give | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kettle | det |
| 6 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tripod | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tripod | det |
| 9 | tripod | tripod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kettle | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 w | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 w | amod |
| 15 | w | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur Typo=Yes | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | omen | omen | X | _ | 15 w | goeswith |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 emperor | det |
| 20 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ordered | nsubj |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | a kettle and a tripod | the old w = woman | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kettle=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old w | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the emperor | kettle | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the emperor not said here | instantly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
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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