The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 18
He could make fish-jelly, and quince fritters, and even wafer-cakes; and he gilded the ears of all his boars’ heads.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: make, gild · To what, where: fish jelly, ears
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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:pg2435:1354): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jelly | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
| 6 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fritters | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fritters | cc |
| 9 | quince | quince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fritters | compound |
| 10 | fritters | fritter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jelly | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cakes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cakes | cc |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 cakes | advmod |
| 14 | wafer | wafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cakes | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wafer | punct |
| 16 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jelly | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gilded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gilded | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gilded | nsubj |
| 20 | gilded | gild | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ears | det |
| 22 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gilded | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 heads | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 boars | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 boars | nmod:poss |
| 26 | boars | boar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 heads | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 26 boars | case |
| 28 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ears | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | Peter | fish jelly and quince fritters and wafer cakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jelly=Product | ||||
| 2 | gild | past | Peter | the ears of Peter's boars's heads | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Destination |
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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