The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 244

But all the same, as he adored his son, he gave the gypsy his hand and led her to the great hall, where the bridal feast was spread.

Who acts: father · What happens: adore, give, lead, spread · To what, where: son, hand, gypsy, creature, great hall, bridal feast

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 (father), 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:pg540:3153): 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 same	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 adored	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 adored	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 adored	nsubj
8	adored	adore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 adored	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gypsy	det
15	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	iobj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 led	cc
19	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 hall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hall	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hall	amod
24	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 led	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spread	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 spread	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feast	det
28	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feast	amod
29	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spread	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spread	aux:pass
31	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hall	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	adore	past	father	father's son			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
2	give	past	father	father's hand	the gypsy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gypsy=Recipient hand=Theme
3	lead	past	father not said here	creature		the great hall	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to hall=Destination
4	spread	past · passive		the bridal feast			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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