The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 123
They began to talk, and the soldier told them that the king was very sorry for the way he had treated his daughter, and wished day and night that he could have her back again.
Who acts: Hans, soldier, king, man · What happens: begin, talk, tell, be, treat, wish · To what, where: Hans, way, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, soldier, king, man), 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:pg3027:2595): 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 | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 talk | mark |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sorry | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorry | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sorry | advmod |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 told | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorry | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treated | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wished | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wished | cc |
| 27 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | conj |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 night | cc |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | aux |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wished | ccomp |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 have | obj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 again | advmod |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 have | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Hans = han | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | Hans = han not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the soldier | Hans = han | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the king | for the way; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | treat | past · perfect | king | the way not said here | man's daughter | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | |||
| 6 | wish | past | the king not said here | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | could | man | daughter | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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