The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 37
Do you see those tall nettles that grow on the tombs in the churchyard?
Who acts: you, tall nettles · What happens: see, grow · To what, where: tall nettles, tombs
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tall nettles), 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:pg540:3318): 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 nettles | det |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nettles | amod |
| 6 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nettles | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tombs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tombs | det |
| 11 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 churchyard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 churchyard | det |
| 14 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tombs | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | that tall nettles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nettle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | that tall nettles | the tombs in the churchyard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tomb=Location |
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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