The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 94
They saw Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat, and letting them down by a basket into a draw-well, but king nor princes ever saw an opening before in the same place.
Who acts: ladies, Seven Inches, king · What happens: see, hand, let down · To what, where: Seven Inches, three princesses, boat, ladies, draw well, opening
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, Seven Inches, king), 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:pg3454:918): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Inches | compound |
| 4 | Inches | Inches | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princesses | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 princesses | nummod |
| 8 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handing | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 out | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 letting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 letting | cc |
| 15 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 handing | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 letting | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 letting | compound:prt |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 basket | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 basket | det |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 letting | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 well | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 23 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 well | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 draw | punct |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 letting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 saw | cc |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 princes | cc |
| 30 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 king | conj |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 saw | advmod |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 opening | det |
| 34 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obj |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 saw | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 place | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 place | amod |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ladies = lady | Seven Inches | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | gerund | Seven Inches not said here | the three princesses | the boat | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme out boat=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | let down | gerund | Seven Inches not said here | ladies = lady | a draw well | by a basket | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 4 | see | past | king nor princes | a opening | the same place | ever | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opening=Stimulus |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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