The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 62
One day she escaped from the princess’s notice and went to the prince, and laid her head on his feet and said: “Heaven has bestowed on you beauty and charm.
Who acts: princess, Heaven · What happens: escape, go, lay, say, bestow, notice · To what, where: notice, head, feet, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Heaven), 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:pg3282:129): 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 notice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 notice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laid | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 bestowed | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bestowed | punct |
| 27 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 bestowed | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bestowed | aux |
| 29 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 bestowed | obl |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bestowed | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 charm | cc |
| 34 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beauty | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | princess | the princess's notice | day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from notice=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | princess not said here | to the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | princess not said here | princess's head | prince's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on foot=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bestow in a quote | present · perfect | Heaven | beauty and charm | on you | tree rules | |||
| 6 | notice | the princess | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=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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