The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 103
‘I would fain get a sight of the king’s son before he marries,’ sighed she.
Who acts: I, shoemaker, girl · What happens: get, marry, sigh, sight · To what, where: sight, son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shoemaker, girl), 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:pg3454:2669): 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | fain | fain | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sighed | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 marries | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marries | nsubj |
| 15 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 18 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sighed | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | I | a sight of the king's son | fain property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | marry | present | shoemaker | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sigh | past | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sight | the king's son | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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