The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

Presently they came to the town; everything here, too, was beautiful, and everything that a man might desire he could obtain.

Who acts: children, everything, man, Gopani · What happens: come, be, desire, obtain · To what, where: town, everything

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, everything, man, Gopani), 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:pg3027:96): 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 beautiful	punct
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 beautiful	nsubj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 everything	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 too	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	14 beautiful	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 too	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beautiful	cop
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obtain	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 obtain	cc
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 obtain	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 desire	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 desire	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 desire	aux
22	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 everything	acl:relcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 obtain	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 obtain	aux
25	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 beautiful	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	children = child		the town	presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	is	past	everything			beautiful property	tree rules
3	desire	might	a man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	obtain	could	Gopani	everything			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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 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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