The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 100
I see I must go further,’ and he walked on to Pont-aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river.
Who acts: I, fortune · What happens: see, go, walk on, build · To what, where: Pont aven, little town, bank · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fortune), 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:pg3454:3004): 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 aven | case |
| 14 | Pont | Pont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 aven | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pont | punct |
| 16 | aven | aven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 town | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 20 little | advmod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 town | amod |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aven | appos |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 town | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bank | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bank | det |
| 25 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bank | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | must | I | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk on | past | fortune | Pont aven | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aven=Result | ||||
| 4 | build | participle | a little town not said here | the bank of a river | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on bank=Source |
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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