The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 54
He had three liners, three frigates, three brigs and three schooners.
Who acts: Lasse · What happens: have · To what, where: three liners
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse), 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:pg3454:1244): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 liners | nummod |
| 4 | liners | liner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frigates | punct |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 frigates | nummod |
| 7 | frigates | frigate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 liners | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brigs | punct |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brigs | nummod |
| 10 | brigs | brig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 liners | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 schooners | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 schooners | nummod |
| 13 | schooners | schooner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 liners | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Lasse | three liners and three frigates and three brigs and three schooners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liner=Patient |
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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