The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 17
There were vessels of gold and silver, but not one human being was to be seen.
Who acts: vessels · What happens: be, see · To what, where: one human being
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessels), 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:pg540:335): 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vessels | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silver | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 being | nummod |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 being | amod |
| 13 | being | being | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | vessels of gold and silver | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | one human being | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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