The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 69
But why does not my lazy girl bring the wood I sent her for, it will soon be too dark for her to find her way?
Who acts: lazy girl, I, wood, girl · What happens: not bring, send, be, find · To what, where: wood, girl, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazy girl, I, wood, girl), 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:pg3027:1038): 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 | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 bring | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bring | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 girl | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wood | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dark | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dark | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dark | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 dark | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dark | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 dark | advmod |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bring | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dark | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | present · do-support | my lazy girl | the wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | I | girl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | future | wood | dark, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | girl | girl's way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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