The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 110
When he wishes to eat, take your knife and cut pieces of the meat and set them before him with a bow.
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: wish, eat, take, cut, set · To what, where: knife, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you), 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:pg3282:262): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wishes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wishes | nsubj |
| 3 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishes | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 meat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meat | det |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pieces | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 bow | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bow | det |
| 23 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | imperative | you not said here | your knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | infinitive | you not said here | pieces of the meat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product | ||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | you not said here | pieces = piece | before prince | with a bow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before he=Destination |
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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