The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 58
He was old, decrepit, dirty, and ragged!
Who acts: King · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg3027:159): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 decrepit | punct |
| 5 | decrepit | decrepit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 7 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ragged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ragged | cc |
| 10 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | King not said here | 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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