The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 85

From the time he was a little boy he had been told that on his sixteenth birthday he must go out into the world and serve his apprenticeship.

Who acts: couple · What happens: be, tell, go out, serve · To what, where: little boy, couple, sixteenth birthday, apprenticeship · 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 (couple), 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:pg3027:2511): 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	acl:relcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 birthday	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 birthday	nmod:poss
16	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumType=Ord	17 birthday	amod
17	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 serve	cc
26	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 apprenticeship	nmod:poss
28	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 serve	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	couple	a little boy				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		couple		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go out	must	couple		couple's sixteenth birthday		into the world; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	serve	infinitive	couple not said here	couple's apprenticeship				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apprenticeship=Attribute

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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