The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 110
Before the sun was up, the youth took his bow and his quiver and set off to kill the birds.
Who acts: sun, youth · What happens: be, take, set off, kill, quiver · To what, where: bow, birds
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, youth), 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:pg3454:2582): 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 up | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 up | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 up | cop |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 took | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quiver | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 14 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bow | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | up property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the youth | youth's bow and youth's quiver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | the youth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the birds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 5 | quiver | youth | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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