The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 122
“I see your wife,” says she, “riding on the outside just so as to rub against us.
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, say, ride, rub · To what, where: wife, outside · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg3454:512): 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 riding | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 riding | punct |
| 12 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 outside | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 outside | det |
| 15 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riding | obl |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 so | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 riding | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 rub | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rub | mark |
| 20 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 riding | advcl |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 rub | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | wife | your wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | gerund | your wife not said here | the outside | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rub in a quote | to-infinitive | your wife not said here | against us | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against we=Destination |
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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