The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 26

‘Whither are those going?’ asked the fir-tree; ‘they are no bigger than I, and one there was much smaller even!

Who acts: those, fir tree, peace, one · What happens: go, ask, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, fir tree, peace, one), 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:pg5615:1163): 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
2	Whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	5 going	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bigger	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 bigger	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bigger	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bigger	cop
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 bigger	advmod
18	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 asked	parataxis
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 I	case
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bigger	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smaller	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smaller	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 smaller	nsubj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 one	advmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smaller	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 smaller	advmod
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 bigger	conj
28	even	even	ADV	_	27 smaller	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	those	whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the fir tree		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	present	peace	than I; big property	tree rules
4	is	past	one	small property	tree rules

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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