The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 126

It was such a good thing that Jonas was going with corn to the mill, for Walter got a seat on the load, while Caro ran barking beside them.

Who acts: going, Jonas, Walter, Caro · What happens: be, go, get, run, bark · To what, where: good thing, mill, seat, load

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (going, Jonas, Walter, Caro), 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:pg3454:614): 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thing	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 thing	csubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 corn	case
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mill	det
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
18	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 seat	det
21	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 load	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 load	det
24	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 ran	mark
27	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	advcl
29	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 ran	xcomp
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 barking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	going	such good thing			tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	Jonas		the mill	with corn	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location
3	get	past	Walter	a seat	the load		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on load=Source
4	run	past	Caro				tree rules
5	bark	gerund	Caro not said here			beside ears = ear	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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