The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 6
And she led them into a room with two little white beds, so clean and comfortable that it made you sleepy even to look at them.
Who acts: woman · What happens: lead, make, look · To what, where: hearers, room
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg3027:1500): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 led | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 beds | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 beds | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beds | amod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beds | amod |
| 12 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 room | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clean | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 clean | advmod |
| 15 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beds | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comfortable | cc |
| 17 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clean | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | expl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 clean | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obj |
| 22 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 made | xcomp |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | csubj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | woman | hearers = hearer | a room with two little white beds | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | woman not said here | room | sleepy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | at beds = bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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