The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 125
So Jack turned himself into a dove, and Farmer Weatherbeard turned himself into a hawk, and flew after the dove and struck it.
Who acts: Jack, Farmer · What happens: turn, fly, strike · To what, where: Jack, dove, Farmer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Farmer), 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:pg540:3520): 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 dove | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dove | det |
| 7 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 10 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Farmer | flat |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 turned | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 hawk | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hawk | det |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | conj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 dove | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dove | det |
| 22 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 struck | cc |
| 24 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 struck | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Jack | Jack | a dove | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into dove=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Farmer | Farmer | into a hawk result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into hawk=Result | |||
| 3 | fly | past | Farmer not said here | after the dove | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | Farmer not said here | dove | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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