The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 62
But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together in one stall, and shepherds dined on grassy banks with kings and queens.
Who acts: that, wolves, shepherds · What happens: be, lie, dine · To what, where: time, one stall
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 (that, wolves, shepherds), 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:pg2435:783): 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 time | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | advmod |
| 7 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lambs | cc |
| 9 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wolves | conj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stall | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stall | nummod |
| 15 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dined | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dined | cc |
| 18 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dined | nsubj |
| 19 | dined | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 banks | case |
| 21 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 banks | amod |
| 22 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dined | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 kings | case |
| 24 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dined | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 queens | cc |
| 26 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kings | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | wolves and lambs | one stall | peacefully, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location | |||
| 3 | dine | past | shepherds | with kings and queens; on grassy banks | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bank=Patient |
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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