The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 17
By-and-by he saw a castle, and knew from what Jamila had told him that it was the Place of Clashing Swords.
Who acts: prince, Jamila, castle · What happens: see, know, tell, be · To what, where: castle, prince, Place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Jamila, castle), 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:pg3282:279): 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 | By | by | ADV | _ | 7 saw | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 by | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADV | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 knew | obl |
| 15 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 Place | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Place | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Place | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Place | det |
| 23 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Swords | case |
| 25 | Clashing | Clashing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Swords | compound |
| 26 | Swords | Swords | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 Place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | prince | a castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Jamila | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | castle | the Place | of Clashing Swords | 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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