The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 131
At last they decided that some great sorrow had caused this terrible fever.
Who acts: doctors, great sorrow · What happens: decide, cause · To what, where: last, terrible fever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, great sorrow), 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:pg29021:674): 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 decided | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 caused | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sorrow | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sorrow | amod |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caused | aux |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 decided | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fever | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fever | amod |
| 13 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | doctors = doctor | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | past · perfect | some great sorrow | this terrible fever | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fever=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 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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