The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 63
‘To-morrow I will reap this,’ he said, but on the morrow the ears had gone, and there was nothing but the bare straw.
Who acts: I, castle, ears, nothing · What happens: reap, say, go, be · To what, where: this, morrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, castle, ears, nothing), 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:pg3454:3162): 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 | _ | 7 reap | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reap | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 reap | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reap | aux |
| 7 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 reap | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reap | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 reap | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morrow | det |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ears | det |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 was | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 was | nsubj |
| 27 | but | but | ADP | _ | 30 straw | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 straw | det |
| 29 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 straw | amod |
| 30 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nothing | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reap | future | I | this | to morrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | castle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the ears | the morrow | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location | ||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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