The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 43
Neither the scrivener nor attorney were sent for.
What happens: send · To what, where: scrivener
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg29021:283): 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 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 scrivener | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 scrivener | det |
| 3 | scrivener | scrivener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 attorney | cc |
| 5 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrivener | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sent | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the scrivener nor attorney | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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