The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 129
Numbers of people splendidly dressed were going into it, and sounds of music and dancing and feasting could be heard from the windows.
Who acts: Numbers · What happens: dress, go, hear · To what, where: people, brook, sounds, windows
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numbers), 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:pg503:3049): 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 | Numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Numbers | nmod |
| 4 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 people | acl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 12 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 music | case |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounds | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dancing | cc |
| 16 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 music | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feasting | cc |
| 18 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 music | conj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 going | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 windows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 windows | det |
| 24 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | people not said here | splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Numbers of people | brook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | could · passive | sounds of music and dancing and feasting | the windows | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from window=Source |
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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