The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24
For every two springs the horses gave, the giants gave three, and at last they were only seventy perches off.
Who acts: horses, giants · What happens: give, be · To what, where: two springs, three, last
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, giants), 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:pg3454:959): 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 springs | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 springs | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 springs | nummod |
| 4 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 springs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 springs | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giants | det |
| 10 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 off | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 off | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 off | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 off | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 off | cop |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 seventy | advmod |
| 20 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 perches | nummod |
| 21 | perches | perch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 off | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 gave | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the horses | every two springs not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the giants | three | spring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | horses = horse | last | seventy perches obl:unmarked; off property | tree rules |
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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