The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 144
Then the second Simon climbed up the pillar and saw and heard all that was going on through the whole world.
Who acts: second Simon · What happens: climb up, see, hear, go on · To what, where: pillar, all, whole world
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second Simon), 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:pg2435:383): 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Simon | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Simon | amod |
| 4 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pillar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pillar | det |
| 8 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 going | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | the second Simon | the pillar | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pillar=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the second Simon not said here | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the second Simon not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | the whole world | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through world=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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