The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 296
All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.
Who acts: boys · What happens: be, arm, decorate, make · To what, where: epaulets
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 (boys), 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:pg540:3192): 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 boys | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 there | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | compound |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boys | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 armed | punct |
| 11 | armed | arm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 there | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 swords | case |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swords | amod |
| 14 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 armed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decorated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 decorated | cc |
| 17 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 armed | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 epaulets | case |
| 19 | epaulets | epaulet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decorated | obl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 epaulets | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 paper | case |
| 22 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 paper | amod |
| 23 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all boys in the country side | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arm | participle | all boys in the country side not said here | with wooden swords | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decorate | participle | all boys in the country side not said here | with epaulets | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with epaulet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | epaulets not said here | of gilt paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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