The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 98

At length the goal was in sight, and Ball-Carrier knew that unless he could get ahead now he would be killed before his own door, under the eyes of his wife.

Who acts: goal, Ball Carrier, Carrier · What happens: be, know, get, kill · To what, where: sight, Carrier, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (goal, Ball Carrier, Carrier), 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:pg3282:641): 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sight	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goal	det
4	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sight	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 sight	case
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
10	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Carrier	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Ball	punct
12	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sight	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 killed	mark
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	advcl
19	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 get	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 killed	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 knew	ccomp
25	before	before	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 door	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 door	amod
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eyes	punct
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 eyes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eyes	det
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 killed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wife	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eyes	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the goal		sight		at length	tree rules
2	know	past	Ball Carrier					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get a condition, not said to happen	could	Carrier			now	ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	kill	would · passive		Carrier	the eyes of Carrier's wife	before Carrier's own door		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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