The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 38
You may imagine how gaily Peter filled his sack with as much gold as he could carry, and how he staggered up the seventy-seven steps with a heart full of hope and delight.
Who acts: You, Peter · What happens: imagine, fill, carry, stagger · To what, where: sack
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 (You, 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:pg2435:1446): 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gaily | advmod |
| 5 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 7 filled | advmod |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sack | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gold | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 much | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 staggered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 staggered | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 staggered | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 staggered | nsubj |
| 22 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 steps | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 steps | det |
| 25 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 seven | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 seventy | punct |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 steps | nummod |
| 28 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 staggered | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 heart | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heart | det |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 staggered | obl |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heart | amod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 hope | case |
| 34 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 full | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 delight | cc |
| 36 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hope | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | Peter | Peter's sack | with much gold; gaily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 3 | carry | could | Peter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stagger | past | Peter | up the seven steps; with a heart | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up step=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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