The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 32
“In which of these jars shall I dip you?” asked Father Gatto, with a grin that showed all his sharp white teeth, while his moustaches stood out straight on either side of his face.
Who acts: Father, grin, moustaches · What happens: dip, ask, show, stand out · To what, where: you, sharp white teeth, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, grin, moustaches), 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:pg2435:3180): 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 dip | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 which | case |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 dip | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jars | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 jars | det |
| 6 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 which | nmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dip | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dip | nsubj |
| 9 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dip | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 dip | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dip | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Father | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grin | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 grin | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 grin | det |
| 19 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 showed | nsubj |
| 21 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grin | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 teeth | det |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 teeth | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 teeth | amod |
| 26 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 showed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 stood | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 moustaches | nmod:poss |
| 30 | moustaches | moustache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | advcl |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 stood | advmod |
| 33 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 31 stood | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 side | case |
| 35 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 side | det |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 face | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 face | nmod:poss |
| 39 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 side | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip in a quote | shall | Father | you | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme in which=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Father | with a grin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | past | a grin | father's sharp white teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stand out | past | father's moustaches | either side of father's face | out, straight property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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