The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 151
“Can you wash this shirt clean?” he cried.
Who acts: you, troll · What happens: wash, cry · To what, where: shirt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, troll), 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:pg503:366): 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 | _ | 4 wash | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wash | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wash | nsubj |
| 4 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 shirt | det |
| 6 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wash | obj |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wash | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wash | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wash | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash in a quote | can | you | this shirt | clean property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | troll | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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