The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 54
Unluckily, though he did not SPEAK, he did drink, and it was not long before he fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Father, secret · What happens: not speak, drink, not be, fall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, secret), 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:pg3282:772): 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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 11 drink | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 SPEAK | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 SPEAK | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 SPEAK | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 SPEAK | advmod |
| 7 | SPEAK | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 drink | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 SPEAK | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drink | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drink | aux |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 long | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 long | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | conj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 fell | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | advcl |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 22 asleep | advmod |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | Father | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past · do-support | Father | unluckily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | secret | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Father | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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