The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 48
Luckily a servant of the princess to whom the park belonged was walking by, and he drove off the dog, and picking up the trembling Gon in his arms, carried him to his mistress.
Who acts: park, servant · What happens: belong, walk, drive off, pick up, carry · To what, where: dog, trembling Gon, arms, Gon, mistress
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (park, servant), 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:pg5615:45): 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servant | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 belonged | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 park | det |
| 10 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | acl:relcl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walking | aux |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drove | nsubj |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walking | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 drove | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 carried | cc |
| 24 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 carried | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 picking | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Gon | det |
| 27 | trembling | trembling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Gon | amod |
| 28 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 picking | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 arms | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 arms | nmod:poss |
| 31 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 picking | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 picking | punct |
| 33 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 drove | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 carried | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 mistress | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the park | to the princess | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | a servant of the princess | luckily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive off | past | park | the dog | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick up | gerund | the trembling Gon | Gon's arms | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gon=Topic | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | park not said here | Gon | Gon's mistress | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mistress=Destination |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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