The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 61
“Oh, if I could only meet with a true friend he should be as a brother to me,” he sighed sadly; and as the thought passed through his mind, he noticed a youth going the same road as himself.
Who acts: friend, son, thought, youth · What happens: meet, be, sigh, pass, notice, go · To what, where: friend, mind, youth, same road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, son, thought, youth), 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:pg2435:3272): 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 | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 meet | advmod |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brother | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 brother | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brother | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 brother | det |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sighed | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sighed | nsubj |
| 24 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 24 sighed | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 noticed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 noticed | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 passed | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thought | det |
| 30 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 passed | nsubj |
| 31 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 noticed | advcl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 passed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 passed | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 noticed | nsubj |
| 37 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sighed | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 youth | det |
| 39 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 noticed | obj |
| 40 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 noticed | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 road | det |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 road | amod |
| 43 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 going | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 himself | case |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 going | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | no friend = friend | with a true friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | son | no friend = friend | as a brother | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sigh | past | son | sadly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | the thought | son's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 5 | notice | past | son | a youth | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | gerund | a youth not said here | the same road | as son | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | |||
| 7 | mind | son | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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