The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 26

When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away.

Who acts: Dame, husband · What happens: set, eat, be, hear, question, go away · To what, where: something, adventures, husband

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, husband), 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:pg2435:1435): 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 set	advmod
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
3	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dame	flat
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 curious	advcl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 set	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 curious	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 curious	cop
15	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hear	mark
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 curious	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 adventures	nmod:poss
19	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hear	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 questioned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 questioned	cc
22	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 curious	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 questioned	obj
24	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	22 questioned	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 gone	mark
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 gone	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 questioned	advcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect	Dame	something				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient something=Result
2	eat	to-infinitive	Dame not said here	something not said here		before dame's husband		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dame				curious property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	dame not said here	husband's adventures				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus
5	question speech: other	past	dame not said here		husband		eagerly property	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	go away	past · perfect	husband				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	adventure		husband					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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