The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 126
I met him in a distant town reduced to carrying away dust and rubbish from the houses.
Who acts: I · What happens: meet, reduce, carry away · To what, where: sire, distant town, dust, houses
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:82): 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obl |
| 8 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 met | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 carrying | mark |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reduced | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADP | _ | 10 carrying | compound:prt |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rubbish | cc |
| 14 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dust | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 houses | det |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carrying | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | I | sire | a distant town | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | reduce | participle | I not said here | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | carry away | gerund | I not said here | dust and rubbish | the houses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from house=Initial_Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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