The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 56
After this the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad grew bolder and bolder, and stole great quantities of cattle and sold them and grew quite rich.
Who acts: Black Rogue · What happens: grow, steal, sell · To what, where: great quantities, quantities
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Rogue), 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:pg3454:139): 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 grew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rogue | det |
| 4 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rogue | amod |
| 5 | Rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Lad | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lad | det |
| 8 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Lad | amod |
| 9 | Lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rogue | conj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bolder | cc |
| 13 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bolder | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stole | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stole | cc |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 quantities | amod |
| 18 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stole | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cattle | case |
| 20 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quantities | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sold | cc |
| 22 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sold | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 rich | advmod |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad | after this | bold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | past | the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad not said here | great quantities of cattle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quantity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sell | past | the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad not said here | quantities = quantity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad not said here | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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