The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 77
Her attendants dressed him in it, and brought him again before the tender-hearted lady.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: dress, bring · To what, where: Venus, wallet
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 (attendants), 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:pg3282:235): 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 lady | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 14 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearted | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tender | punct |
| 16 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | spite's attendants | Venus | wallet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | past | spite's attendants not said here | Venus | before the hearted lady; again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before lady=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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