The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 21
And it is all because of the curiosity of old mother Eve!
Who acts: work · What happens: be
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 (work), 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:pg3454:536): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 curiosity | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 curiosity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 curiosity | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 curiosity | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 curiosity | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 curiosity | det |
| 8 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | amod |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curiosity | nmod |
| 12 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 curiosity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | work | because the curiosity; of old mother; all property | tree rules |
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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