The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 91

The old man settled her comfortably, then sprang up in front of her as easily as if he had been a boy, and, shaking the reins, they were soon out of sight.

Who acts: old man, need, men · What happens: settle, spring up, be, shake · To what, where: Helga, front, boy, reins, sight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, need, men), 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:pg3282:1176): 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 settled	nsubj
4	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settled	obj
6	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	4 settled	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sprang	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sprang	advmod
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sprang	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sprang	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 front	nmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 easily	advmod
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 sprang	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 boy	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 boy	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 boy	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 boy	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 boy	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 easily	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sight	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sight	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shaking	punct
27	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 sight	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 reins	det
29	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shaking	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shaking	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sight	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sight	cop
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 sight	advmod
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 sight	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 out	fixed
36	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 settled	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	past	the old man	Helga			comfortably property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme she=Location
2	spring up	past	the old man not said here		front of Helga	then	easily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	is a	past · perfect	need	a boy				tree rules
4	shake	gerund	men = man not said here	the reins				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rein=Patient
5	is	past	men = man		sight		soon property	tree rules

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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