The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 116
When they heard the cow lowing they galloped all the faster, and soon they all arrived at his father’s house.
Who acts: man, cow · What happens: hear, low, gallop, arrive · To what, where: cow, house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cow), 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:pg2435:2307): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 galloped | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | lowing | low | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 galloped | nsubj |
| 8 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 faster | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 faster | det |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 galloped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 they | det |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 galloped | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | man | the cow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | low | gerund | the cow not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gallop | past | man | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | man | bull's father's house | soon property | 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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