The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 107
Guns were fired, and fireworks let off.
What happens: fire, let off · To what, where: Guns, fireworks
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:1092): 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 | Guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fired | aux:pass |
| 3 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 6 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 let | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fired | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past · passive | Guns | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let off | participle · passive | fireworks | vn give-13.1-1 «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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