The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 9

One day he was invited to a christening where many rich men from the neighbouring town were present, and all agreed that never in all their lives had they heard such playing as his.

Who acts: many rich men, all, people · What happens: invite, be, agree, not hear · To what, where: Tiidu, such playing, lives · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many rich men, all, people), 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:pg2435:922): 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invited	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 invited	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invited	aux:pass
5	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 christening	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 christening	det
8	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invited	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 present	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 present	nsubj
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
15	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 town	amod
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 men	nmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 present	cop
18	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 christening	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 agreed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 agreed	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 agreed	nsubj
22	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invited	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 heard	mark
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 heard	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 lives	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 lives	det:predet
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lives	nmod:poss
28	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heard	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	aux
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 heard	nsubj
31	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 agreed	ccomp
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 playing	amod
33	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obj
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 his	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 playing	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	past · passive		Tiidu		day	to a christening	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past	many rich men from the neighbouring town				present property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past	all					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not hear	past · perfect	people	such playing	people's lives		as Tiidu	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer playing=Stimulus

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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