The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 9
They all returned in state to the city, where great rejoicings were held.
Who acts: children · What happens: return, hold · To what, where: state, great rejoicings
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 (children), 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:pg3027:2167): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 They | det |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 state | case |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 held | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rejoicings | amod |
| 12 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 city | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | children = child | state | to the city result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | |||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | great rejoicings | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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