The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 38
In a few minutes he returned, followed by a cloud of wood-pigeons, so dense that it seemed to fill the room.
Who acts: life, it · What happens: return, follow, seem, fill, cloud · To what, where: room, wood pigeons
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 (life, it), 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:pg2435:1802): 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 | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 returned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 cloud | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pigeons | case |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pigeons | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 15 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cloud | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dense | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 dense | advmod |
| 18 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cloud | amod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dense | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fill | mark |
| 23 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | life | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | life not said here | by a cloud of wood pigeons | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by cloud=Location | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | fill | to-infinitive | the room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | |||||
| 5 | cloud | wood pigeons | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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