The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 85
“My good fox,” said the magpie putting his head on one side and looking very wise—“my good fox, if you take my advice, you will go home as fast as you can.
Who acts: magpie, you · What happens: say, put, look, take, go · To what, where: head, one side, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, you), 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:pg2435:2095): 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fox | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fox | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fox | amod |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fox | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fox | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magpie | det |
| 9 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 side | nummod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 putting | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wise | advmod |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looking | xcomp |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fox | nmod:poss |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fox | amod |
| 24 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | vocative |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | advcl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 advice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 35 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 fast | advmod |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 can | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 can | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fast | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the magpie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the magpie not said here | magpie's head | one side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | the magpie not said here | wise property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | future | you | My good fox vocative; my good fox vocative; fast, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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