The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 25
In an hour’s time, the servants came and shook him by the shoulder.
Who acts: servants · What happens: come, shake · To what, where: servant
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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:pg2435:1096): 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 | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shook | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoulder | det |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the servants | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the servants not said here | servant | by the shoulder | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme by shoulder=Trajectory |
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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