The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 104

In return, the birds taught them many things: how to get up early in the morning, how to sing, and how to talk their language, which very few people know.

Who acts: birds, few people · What happens: teach, get up, sing, talk, know · To what, where: many things, boy, return, language

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, few people), 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:pg3027:2081): 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taught	nsubj
6	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	iobj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taught	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 things	appos
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 get	compound:prt
15	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 get	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sing	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 sing	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sing	mark
22	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talk	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 talk	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 talk	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 talk	mark
27	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 language	nmod:poss
29	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 talk	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 know	obj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 few	advmod
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 people	amod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 know	nsubj
35	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 language	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	the birds	many things	boy	return			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient thing=Topic
2	get up	to-infinitive					morning	early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	to-infinitive		boy's language					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent language=Patient
5	know	present	few people	boy's language					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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