The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 78
No sooner had he reached it than he cracked his nut for the second time, and out came the horses, sheep, and oxen again.
Who acts: Peter, horses · What happens: reach, crack, come · To what, where: foot, nut
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 (Peter, horses), 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:pg2435:2374): 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 sooner | advmod |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 reached | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 cracked | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cracked | nsubj |
| 9 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sooner | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nut | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horses | det |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sheep | punct |
| 23 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 horses | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 oxen | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 oxen | cc |
| 26 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 horses | conj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | Peter | foot | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | crack | past | Peter | Peter's nut | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | the horses and sheep and oxen | again | out 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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