The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 12
They felt it was quite generous of them to provide him with a pair of new boots and some bread and milk for his journey.
Who acts: people, man · What happens: feel, be, provide, journey · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, man), 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:pg2435:1877): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 generous | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 generous | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 generous | advmod |
| 6 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 generous | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 provide | mark |
| 10 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 generous | csubj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 provide | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pair | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pair | det |
| 14 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 boots | case |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boots | amod |
| 17 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pair | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bread | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 bread | det |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pair | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 milk | cc |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bread | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 journey | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 journey | nmod:poss |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | people | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | people not said here | of people; generous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | provide | to-infinitive | man | with a pair of new boots and some bread and milk; for man's journey | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition he=Theme for journey=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | journey | man | nom journey «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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