The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 10
“Directly we came to the meadow they grew so wild that I could not keep them together.
Who acts: we, oxen, young man · What happens: come, grow, not keep · To what, where: meadow, oxen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, oxen, young 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:pg2435:2323): 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 | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 2 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 meadow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meadow | det |
| 7 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 wild | advmod |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wild | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 keep | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | we | the meadow | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grow in a quote | past | oxen = ox | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not keep in a quote | could | the young man = man | oxen = ox | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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