The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 50
Then tearing it off, she gave it to the frog, and they bade each other farewell.
Who acts: queen, words · What happens: tear off, give, bid · To what, where: arm, frog, farewell, other
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, words), 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:pg3027:1795): 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 tearing | advmod |
| 2 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gave | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tearing | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 tearing | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tearing | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 frog | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 frog | det |
| 11 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | nsubj |
| 15 | bade | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bade | iobj |
| 18 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bade | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear off | gerund | queen not said here | arm | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | queen | arm | the frog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to frog=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bid | past | words = word | farewell | each other | tree rules |
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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