The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 21
And without saying any more he trotted off the way he had come.
Who acts: thing · What happens: say, trot off, come · To what, where: more, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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:pg3282:1837): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trotted | cc |
| 2 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 3 saying | mark |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 trotted | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 more | det |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 saying | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trotted | nsubj |
| 7 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 trotted | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trotted | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | thing not said here | any more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 2 | trot off | past | thing | the way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | thing | the way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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