The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 46
He called his Council together and condemned the servant to death.
Who acts: king · What happens: call, condemn · To what, where: Council, servant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2435:130): 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 | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Council | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 condemned | cc |
| 7 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condemned | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condemned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | king | king's Council | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | |||
| 2 | condemn | past | king not said here | the servant | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
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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