The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 109
At length the giant crawled away, and lay quivering in a corner, and the queen went up to him.
Who acts: giant, queen · What happens: crawl away, lie, quiver, go up · To what, where: length, corner, giant
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, queen), 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:pg3454:831): 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crawled | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crawled | nsubj |
| 5 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 crawled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crawled | conj |
| 10 | quivering | quiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quivering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crawled | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl away | past | the giant | length | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the giant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | quiver | gerund | the giant not said here | a corner | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | the queen | giant | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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