The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 100

He asked where his fault lay, and said that every night my wife took one or other of these horses and rode away, and came back only just before dawn.

Who acts: Tiger, fault, wife · What happens: ask, lie, say, take, ride away, come back · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, fault, wife), 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:pg3282:442): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lay	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 took	mark
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl:unmarked
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 took	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 other	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 horses	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 horses	det
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rode	cc
23	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 rode	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	only	only	ADV	_	32 dawn	advmod
30	just	just	ADV	_	32 dawn	advmod
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 dawn	case
32	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Tiger				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	past	Tiger's fault				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Tiger not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	past	my wife	one of this horses	night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	ride away	past	my wife not said here			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	come back	past	my wife not said here		dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fault		Tiger				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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