The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 88
The wind at starting was fair, but it soon freshened, and in the night rose to a gale.
Who acts: wind · What happens: start, be, freshen, rise · To what, where: gale
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 (wind), 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:pg2435:993): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 starting | mark |
| 4 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 wind | acl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 freshened | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 freshened | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 freshened | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 freshened | advmod |
| 11 | freshened | freshen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rose | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | obl |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 freshened | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gale | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gale | det |
| 20 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | the wind not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the wind | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | freshen | past | wind | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | wind not said here | a gale | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gale=Initial_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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