The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 36
It bounded high and leaped right over his head, got out of the ring, and tore like the eastern wind into the waste.
Who acts: place · What happens: bound, leap, get out, tear · To what, where: head, ring, waste
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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:pg3282:27): 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bounded | nsubj |
| 2 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bounded | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leaped | cc |
| 5 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounded | conj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 head | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounded | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 ring | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ring | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tore | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tore | cc |
| 18 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounded | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 21 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wind | amod |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tore | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 waste | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waste | det |
| 25 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tore | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | place | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap | past | place not said here | Prince's head | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get out | past | place not said here | the ring | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tear | past | place not said here | the waste | like the eastern wind | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into waste=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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