The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 92
And both the young men gave thanks, and set their faces towards home.
Who acts: young men · What happens: give, set · To what, where: thanks, faces
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 (young men), 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:pg2435:3295): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 2 | both | both | DET | _ | 5 men | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faces | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | both young men | thanks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past | both young men not said here | thanks's faces | towards home | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result |
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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