The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 1
‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its branches wide; but, alas! they were all withered and yellow; and it was lying in a corner among weeds and nettles.
Who acts: I, tree, branches · What happens: live, think, stretch out, be, lie · To what, where: branches, corner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tree, branches), 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:pg5615:1271): 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 live | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretching | punct |
| 13 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stretching | compound:prt |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 branches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stretching | obj |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stretching | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 withered | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 withered | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 alas | punct |
| 21 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 26 withered | discourse |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 alas | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 withered | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 withered | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 withered | advmod |
| 26 | withered | withered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 live | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 yellow | cc |
| 28 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 withered | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 lying | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lying | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lying | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 lying | aux |
| 33 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 live | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 corner | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 corner | det |
| 36 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lying | obl |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 weeds | case |
| 38 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lying | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 nettles | cc |
| 40 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 weeds | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | shall | I | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the tree | joyfully property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | gerund | the tree not said here | tree's branches | wide property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | branches = branch | all, withered property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | branches = branch not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | lie | past · progressive | tree | a corner | among weeds and nettles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=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 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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