The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 146

The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys, which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other charming tricks.

Who acts: carriage, six blue monkeys · What happens: intend, have, turn, dance, do · To what, where: carriage, six blue monkeys, summer saults, tight rope, many other charming tricks

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: who acts (carriage, six blue monkeys), 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:pg540:1108): 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 carriage	det
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
3	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carriage	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 Rosette	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rosette	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rosette	compound
7	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 intended	obl
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 monkeys	nummod
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 monkeys	amod
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 turn	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 turn	aux
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 monkeys	acl:relcl
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saults	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 summer	punct
18	saults	sault	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turn	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dance	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dance	cc
21	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 rope	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rope	det
24	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rope	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tight	punct
26	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dance	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 do	cc
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	conj
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tricks	amod
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tricks	amod
32	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tricks	amod
33	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	participle		the carriage not said here		for the Princess Rosette	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the carriage	six blue monkeys			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient
3	turn	could	six blue monkeys	summer saults			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sault=Theme
4	dance	infinitive	six blue monkeys not said here		a tight rope		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rope=Location
5	do	infinitive	six blue monkeys not said here	many other charming tricks			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality

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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