The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 26

He wondered where it could be, and who could have moved it, and after searching through all the rooms, he found it hanging over the kitchen fire.

Who acts: Stalo, mantle · What happens: wonder, be, move, search, find, hang · To what, where: mantle, rooms, kitchen fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalo, mantle), 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:pg3027:2316): 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 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	6 be	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moved	cc
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	12 moved	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 moved	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 moved	aux
12	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 be	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moved	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 searching	mark
17	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 found	advcl
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 rooms	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 rooms	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rooms	det
21	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 searching	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 searching	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	obj
26	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 found	xcomp
27	over	over	ADP	_	30 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
29	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fire	compound
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Stalo			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	can	could	mantle			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	could · perfect		mantle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	search	gerund	Stalo not said here		all rooms	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through room=Location
5	find	past	Stalo	mantle		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
6	hang	gerund	mantle not said here		the kitchen fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location

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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