The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 100
Behind the rock was a cave which it was quite clear was the home of some robbers, though not one of the band was there.
Who acts: cave, one · What happens: be · To what, where: rock, home
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, one), 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:pg2435:1240): 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 rock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rock | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rock | nsubj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 home | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clear | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clear | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 clear | advmod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cave | acl:relcl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 home | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clear | csubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 robbers | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 robbers | det |
| 17 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 home | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 there | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 there | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 band | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 band | det |
| 24 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rock | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a cave | the rock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the home | of some robbers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | one of the band | there property | tree rules |
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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