The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 12

He saw, too, the Bad One sitting in the midst of his treasures eating his dinner, and drinking something out of a horn.

Who acts: sight, Bad One · What happens: see, sit, eat, drink, treasure · To what, where: Bad One, midst, dinner, something, horn

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Bad One), 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:pg3282:575): 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 One	det
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 One	amod
8	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 midst	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 midst	det
12	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 treasures	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 treasures	nmod:poss
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 midst	nmod
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dinner	nmod:poss
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drinking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drinking	cc
21	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 eating	conj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 drinking	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 horn	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 out	fixed
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 horn	det
26	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drinking	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	sight	the Bad One		tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the Bad One not said here		the midst of sight's treasures	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
3	eat	gerund	the Bad One not said here	sight's dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
4	drink	gerund	the Bad One not said here	something	a horn	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	treasure		sight			nom treasure «possession 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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