The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 27
She was very angry at the slight put upon her godchild, and from that moment kept careful watch on the princess.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: be, put, keep · To what, where: slight, godchild, careful watch
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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:pg3027:1448): 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 slight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slight | det |
| 7 | slight | slight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | obl |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slight | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 godchild | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 godchild | nmod:poss |
| 11 | godchild | godchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obl |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 18 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 watch | amod |
| 19 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 watch | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fairy | the slight | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | participle | the slight not said here | fairy's godchild | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon godchild=Destination | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | fairy not said here | careful watch | moment | on the princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on princess=Location |
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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