The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 197

It would not go down into the well, and the gypsy had to try again and again.

Who acts: Titty, gypsy · What happens: not go down, have, try · To what, where: well

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Titty, gypsy), 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:pg540:3114): 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gypsy	det
12	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 try	mark
15	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 try	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 again	cc
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 again	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go down	would	Titty	the well		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	the gypsy				tree rules
3	try	to-infinitive	the gypsy not said here		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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