The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 16
In despair, he wandered along the coast, hoping to see some ship or sailing boat that would take him where he wished to go, and at length he reached the town of Narva, where several merchantmen were lying at anchor.
Who acts: Tiidu, ship, several merchantmen · What happens: wander, hope, see, take, wish, go · To what, where: despair, ship, Tiidu, town, length, anchor
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, ship, several merchantmen), 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:pg2435:929): 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 despair | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hoping | punct |
| 10 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hoping | xcomp |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 boat | cc |
| 16 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boat | compound |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ship | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ship | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 wished | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wished | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reached | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 reached | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 length | case |
| 30 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reached | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 reached | nsubj |
| 32 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 town | det |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reached | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Narva | case |
| 36 | Narva | Narva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 town | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lying | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 lying | advmod |
| 39 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 merchantmen | amod |
| 40 | merchantmen | merchantman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 lying | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 lying | aux |
| 42 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 town | acl:relcl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 anchor | case |
| 44 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lying | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Tiidu | despair | along the coast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Tiidu not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | some ship or sailing boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | would | some ship or sailing boat | Tiidu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | Tiidu | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | reach | past | Tiidu | the town of Narva | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent town=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 8 | lie | past · progressive | several merchantmen | anchor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at anchor=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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