The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 32
A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp’s-nest, manoeuvring his wasps.
Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: meet, manoeuvre · To what, where: comrade Wasp’s nest, wasps
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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:pg540:2368): 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 on | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 meets | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 meets | nsubj |
| 6 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nest | compound |
| 8 | Wasp’s | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 nest | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 nest | punct |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meets | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 manoeuvring | punct |
| 12 | manoeuvring | manoeuvre | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 meets | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wasps | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 manoeuvring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Drakestail | comrade Wasp’s nest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | manoeuvre | gerund | Drakestail not said here | Drakestail's wasps | tree rules |
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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