The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

When the third child was born she would hardly allow a window or a door to be left open for a moment; but she wasn’t the nearer to keep the child to herself.

Who acts: greyhound, window · What happens: bear, allow, leave, not be, keep · To what, where: third child, window, child, greyhound

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhound, window), 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:pg3454:1136): 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 born	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 born	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 allow	advcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allow	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 allow	aux
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	10 allow	advmod
10	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allow	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 door	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 window	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 left	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 left	aux:pass
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 allow	xcomp
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 left	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 nearer	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 nearer	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nearer	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nearer	cop
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 nearer	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nearer	det
29	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 allow	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 keep	mark
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 nearer	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 child	det
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 herself	case
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 keep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the third child				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	allow	would	greyhound	a window or a door			hardly property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer window=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a window or a door not said here			moment	open property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	not is	past	greyhound				near property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	greyhound not said here	the child	greyhound			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 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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