The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 58

The weight of the load caused his back to ache, and he was thankful to drop it outside their hut, while he rushed in, full of joy, to tell his grandmother.

Who acts: weight, back, Hare · What happens: cause, ache, be, drop, rush in, tell · To what, where: back, hut, grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, back, Hare), 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:pg3282:978): 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weight	det
2	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caused	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 load	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 load	det
5	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weight	nmod
6	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caused	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ache	mark
10	ache	ache	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 caused	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thankful	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thankful	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thankful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thankful	cop
15	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caused	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drop	mark
17	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thankful	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drop	obj
19	outside	outside	ADP	_	21 hut	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hut	nmod:poss
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drop	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rushed	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 rushed	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rushed	nsubj
25	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thankful	advcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 rushed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 full	punct
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rushed	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 joy	case
30	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 full	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rushed	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grandmother	nmod:poss
35	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the weight of the load	Hare's back				tree rules
2	ache	to-infinitive	Hare's back not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Hare				thankful property	tree rules
4	drop	to-infinitive	Hare not said here	back		waters's hut		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme outside hut=Destination
5	rush in	past	Hare				full property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Hare not said here		Hare's grandmother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient

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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