The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 5
Before she started she restored all the men whom her sister, Latifa, had bewitched, to their own forms, and received their blessings, and set them forward to their homes.
Who acts: marriage, sister, men · What happens: start, restore, bewitch, receive, set, form · To what, where: men, own forms, blessings
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, sister, men), 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:pg3282:481): 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 started | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 restored | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 restored | nsubj |
| 5 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 men | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 restored | obj |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bewitched | obj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bewitched | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Latifa | punct |
| 13 | Latifa | Latifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Latifa | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bewitched | aux |
| 16 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 men | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forms | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 forms | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 forms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forms | amod |
| 21 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 restored | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 received | cc |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 restored | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 26 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 received | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 restored | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | obj |
| 31 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 29 set | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 homes | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 homes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 set | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | marriage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | restore | past | marriage | all men | men's own forms | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Theme to form=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bewitch | past · perfect | marriage's sister | all men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | marriage not said here | men's blessings | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set | past | marriage not said here | blessings = blessing | to men's homes; forward property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 6 | form | men = man | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | bless | men = man | nom blessing «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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