The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 123
The King had them both arrested at once and brought to trial, and they were condemned to death.
Who acts: King, things · What happens: have, arrest, bring, condemn · To what, where: things, trial
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, things), 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:pg540:1020): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | det |
| 6 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 arrested | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 arrested | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 trial | case |
| 12 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 condemned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 condemned | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 condemned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 condemned | aux:pass |
| 17 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 condemned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | things = thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrest | participle | things = thing not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | participle | things = thing not said here | trial | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to trial=Destination | ||||
| 4 | condemn | past · passive | things = thing | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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