The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 25
“I am not surprised at her choosing to dress herself in white satin without a thought of me.
Who acts: king, dream · What happens: not be, choose, dress, think · To what, where: dream, white satin, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, dream), 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:pg503:2340): 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 | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 choosing | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 choosing | nsubj |
| 8 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dress | mark |
| 10 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 choosing | xcomp |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 dress | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 satin | case |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 satin | amod |
| 14 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dress | obl |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 thought | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thought | det |
| 17 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dress | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | king | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | gerund | dream | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dress in a quote | to-infinitive | dream not said here | dream | white satin | without a thought of me | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||
| 4 | think in a quote | me | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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