The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 111
What a hunt there was for that kitten, to be sure!
Who acts: hunt · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunt), 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:pg3282:2462): 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 hunt | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunt | det |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | _ | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 kitten | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 kitten | det |
| 8 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunt | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sure | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 was | parataxis |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | what hunt for that kitten | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | sure 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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