The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 98
They went back to the hut, where the girls were laughing and playing.
Who acts: nuts, girls · What happens: go back, laugh, play
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, girls), 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:pg3282:1698): 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hut | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughing | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 laughing | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girls | det |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laughing | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughing | aux |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hut | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 playing | cc |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laughing | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | nuts = nut | to the hut result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | the girls | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | the girls not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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