The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 20
She was present at all his councils, and her opinion was asked before making peace or war.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, ask, make, opine · To what, where: councils, opinion, peace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg2435:1964): 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 present | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 present | cop |
| 3 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 councils | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 councils | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 councils | nmod:poss |
| 7 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 present | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | aux:pass |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 present | conj |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 making | mark |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 war | cc |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peace | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | messenger's councils | present property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | wife's opinion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | peace or war | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||||
| 4 | opine | wife | nom opinion «cognition 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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