The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 15
Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled.
Who acts: peacocks, number · What happens: find, look, assemble · To what, where: number
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peacocks, number), 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:pg540:1738): 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 7 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 miserable | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 found | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | peacocks = peacock | a number of miserable looking men | here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent number=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | assemble | participle | a number of miserable looking men not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: 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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