The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 77
So quick and clever was she that the blue dress was not only woven but embroidered, and Lineik was safe back in her tree before the prince returned.
Who acts: Laufer, Lineik, prince · What happens: be, not weave, embroider, return · To what, where: blue dress, tree
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 (Laufer, Lineik, prince), 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:pg2435:2014): 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 quick | advmod |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clever | cc |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quick | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 quick | cop |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 quick | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 woven | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dress | amod |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 woven | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 woven | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 woven | advmod |
| 14 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 quick | advcl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 embroidered | cc |
| 16 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 woven | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 safe | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 safe | cc |
| 19 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 safe | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 safe | cop |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woven | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 safe | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tree | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 safe | obl |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 returned | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 safe | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Laufer | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Laufer not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not weave | past · passive | the blue dress | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Lineik | Laufer's tree | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | return | past | the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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