The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 114
In the morning, the ogress bade him sweep the dust out of the cave, and to have it clean before her return in the evening, otherwise it would be the worse for him.
Who acts: ogress, voice · What happens: bid, sweep, have, be, return · To what, where: task, dust, cave, ogress
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, voice), 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:pg2435:1864): 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bade | det |
| 6 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | nsubj |
| 7 | bade | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bade | obj |
| 9 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bade | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dust | det |
| 11 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sweep | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 out | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sweep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sweep | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 have | xcomp |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 return | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 return | nmod:poss |
| 24 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 return | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 worse | punct |
| 29 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 34 worse | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 worse | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 worse | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 worse | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 worse | det |
| 34 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 bade | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 worse | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past | ogress | task | morning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sweep | infinitive | ogress not said here | the dust | the cave | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out cave=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | ogress not said here | ogress | before voice's return in the evening | clean property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 4 | is | would | ogress | for task; bad, otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | voice | in the evening | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl |
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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