The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 103
He stooped to catch it, but it swirled past him.
Who acts: river, pack · What happens: stoop, catch, swirl · To what, where: pack
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, pack), 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:pg3027:2215): 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 | 2 stooped | nsubj |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 catch | mark |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stooped | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swirled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 swirled | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swirled | nsubj |
| 9 | swirled | swirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | conj |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swirled | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | river not said here | pack | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swirl | past | pack | past river | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past he=Destination |
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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