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The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 49

But the more they said the more determined she was, and at last they consented to make a tiny hole in the tower on the side that looked towards the city gates.

Who acts: King, Princess, side · What happens: say, be, consent, make, look · To what, where: last, tiny hole, tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess, side), 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:pg540:194): 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

ccdetadvmodnsubjadvcldetadvmodnsubjcoppunctcccaseoblnsubjconjmarkxcompdetamodobjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootButCCONJtheDETmoreADVtheyPRONsaidVERBtheDETmoreADVdeterminedADJshePRONwasAUX,PUNCTandCCONJatADPlastADJtheyPRONconsentedVERBtoPARTmakeVERBaDETtinyADJholeNOUNinADPtheDETtowerNOUNonADPtheDETsideNOUNthatPRONlookedVERBtowardsADPtheDETcityNOUNgatesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_8 determinedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 moredet
3moremoreADVDegree=Cmp5 saidadvmod
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 saidnsubj
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 determinedadvcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 determineddet
7moremoreADVDegree=Cmp8 determinedadvmod
8determineddeterminedADJDegree=Posrootroot
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 determinednsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 determinedcop
11,,PUNCT_16 consentedpunct
12andandCCONJ_16 consentedcc
13atatADP_14 lastcase
14lastlastADJDegree=Pos16 consentedobl
15theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 consentednsubj
16consentedconsentVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 determinedconj
17totoPART_18 makemark
18makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf16 consentedxcomp
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 holedet
20tinytinyADJDegree=Pos21 holeamod
21holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing18 makeobj
22ininADP_24 towercase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 towerdet
24towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing21 holenmod
25ononADP_27 sidecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 sidedet
27sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing24 towernmod
28thatthatPRONPronType=Rel29 lookednsubj
29lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 sideacl:relcl
30towardstowardsADP_33 gatescase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 gatesdet
32citycityNOUNNumber=Sing33 gatescompound
33gatesgateNOUNNumber=Plur29 lookedobl
34..PUNCT_8 determinedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastKingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2ispastPrincessdetermined propertytree rules
3consentpastKinglastvn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4maketo-infinitiveKing not said herea tiny holethe tower on the sidevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5lookpastthe sidetowards the city gatesvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards gate=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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