The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 4
Into that park there used to come a huge beast—Norka was its name—and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.
Who acts: huge beast, Norka · What happens: use, come, be, do, devour · To what, where: park, name, fearful mischief, some
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge beast, Norka), 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:pg540:1364): 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 park | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 park | det |
| 3 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 used | expl |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beast | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beast | amod |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 12 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | parataxis |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 19 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mischief | amod |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devouring | punct |
| 22 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 do | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 devouring | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 animals | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animals | det |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 some | nmod |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 devouring | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | there | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | a huge beast | that park | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into park=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Norka | park's name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | a huge beast not said here | fearful mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | devour | gerund | a huge beast not said here | some | night | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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