The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 144
Out of one of the folds of this young man’s turban there peeped the corner of a letter!
Who acts: corner · What happens: peep
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner), 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:pg3282:2992): 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Out | fixed |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 peeped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 folds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 folds | det |
| 6 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 turban | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turban | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 folds | nmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | _ | 14 peeped | expl |
| 14 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peeped | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 letter | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 letter | det |
| 19 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corner | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the corner of a letter | there | out one of the folds of this young man's turban | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out one=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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