The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 70
Next he caught sight of a horse-hide nailed up on the barn-door.
Who acts: flail · What happens: catch, nail up, sight · To what, where: sight, horse hide
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 (flail), 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:pg5615:1327): 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 caught | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hide | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hide | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hide | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 9 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 10 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hide | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 nailed | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 14 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 barn | punct |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nailed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | flail | sight of a horse hide | next property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | nail up | participle | a horse hide not said here | on the barn door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on door=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | sight | a horse hide | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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