The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 102

Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet which could provide as many soldiers as would serve to conquer the earth, and which had been removed by his grandfather to a cellar.

Who acts: army, magic cornet, grandfather · What happens: recollect, hear, provide, serve, conquer, remove · To what, where: tales, many soldiers, earth, cellar

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, magic cornet, grandfather), 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:pg3027:1282): 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	Vaguely	vaguely	ADV	_	3 recollected	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recollected	nsubj
3	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tales	det
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recollected	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tales	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 cornet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cornet	det
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cornet	compound
12	cornet	cornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 provide	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 provide	aux
15	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cornet	acl:relcl
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 soldiers	amod
18	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 provide	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 serve	mark
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 serve	aux
21	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 many	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 conquer	mark
23	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 serve	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 conquer	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 removed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 removed	cc
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 removed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 removed	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 removed	aux:pass
31	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 provide	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 grandfather	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 grandfather	nmod:poss
34	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 removed	obl:agent
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 cellar	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cellar	det
37	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 removed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recollected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recollect	past	army	some tales		vaguely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	hear	past · perfect	army	some tales not said here		about a magic cornet	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
3	provide	could	a magic cornet	many soldiers			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition soldier=Theme
4	serve	would	a magic cornet not said here				tree rules
5	conquer	to-infinitive	a magic cornet not said here	the earth			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
6	remove	past · perfect · passive	army's grandfather		a cellar		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to cellar=Destination

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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