The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 77
It was wonderful how fast she went, that little creature!
Who acts: shape · What happens: be, go
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shape), 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:pg3027:1615): 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wonderful | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | csubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creature | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 creature | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creature | amod |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonderful | dislocated |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that little creature dislocated; wonderful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | shape | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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