The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 32
Early next morning the young farmer began to go his rounds, and the sheep-fold was the first place he visited.
Who acts: young farmer, sheep fold, ram · What happens: begin, go, be, visit · To what, where: rounds, first place
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young farmer, sheep fold, ram), 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:pg3454:1056): 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farmer | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 farmer | amod |
| 6 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rounds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 place | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fold | det |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fold | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sheep | punct |
| 17 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 visited | nsubj |
| 23 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the young farmer | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the young farmer not said here | ram's rounds | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location round=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sheep fold | the first place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | visit | past | ram | the first place not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-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 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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