The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 16
But this happy state of things did not last long.
Who acts: happy state · What happens: not last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy state), 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:pg540:1198): 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 last | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | det |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 state | amod |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 last | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 state | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 last | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 last | advmod |
| 9 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 last | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not last | past · do-support | this happy state of things | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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