The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 34

But if they had only known what were Gilguerillo's thoughts they would have thought him madder than ever.

Who acts: jeers · What happens: know, be, think · To what, where: thoughts, Gilguerillo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jeers), 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:pg3027:2467): 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 known	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 known	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 known	advmod
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 thought	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 thoughts	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thoughts	cop
9	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 thoughts	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Gilguerillo	case
11	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 known	ccomp
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	aux
15	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	obj
17	madder	mad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 thought	xcomp
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 madder	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	jeers = jeer			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		Gilguerillo's thoughts		tree rules
3	think speech: other	would · perfect	jeers = jeer	Gilguerillo	mad property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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