The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 112
His heart was sad and he would neither eat nor drink.
Who acts: heart · What happens: be, eat, drink
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg2435:479): 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 8 | neither | neither | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc:preconj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sad | conj |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eat | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's heart | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | would | heart | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | heart not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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