The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 10
As soon as it was evening the prince again collected his sheep, and playing on his pipes he marched before them into the city.
Who acts: lake, prince · What happens: be, collect, play, march · To what, where: evening, sheep, pipes, city
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, prince), 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:pg2435:750): 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 collected | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 evening | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evening | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | cop |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 collected | advmod |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collected | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 marched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 marched | cc |
| 15 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 marched | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pipes | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 playing | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 marched | nsubj |
| 20 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 marched | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marched | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lake | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collect | past | the prince | prince's sheep | again | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||
| 3 | play | gerund | prince not said here | prince's pipes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | march | past | prince | before pipes = pipe | into the city result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into city=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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