The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 173
Across them she placed the other bones, piece by piece, like the steps of a ladder.
Who acts: door · What happens: place, step · To what, where: other bones, ladder
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 (door), 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:pg540:1326): 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bones | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bones | amod |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 piece | punct |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 piece | case |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steps | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 steps | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 steps | det |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ladder | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ladder | det |
| 18 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steps | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | door | the other bones | across bones = bone; like the steps of a ladder; piece by piece obl:unmarked | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | step | a ladder | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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