The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63
There they wore wreaths, gathered nosegays, and sang songs some sad, some merry.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: wear, gather, sing · To what, where: wreaths, nosegays, songs
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg5615:1680): 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 | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wore | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wore | conj |
| 7 | nosegays | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wore | conj |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sang | obj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 sad | nsubj |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 songs | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 merry | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 merry | nsubj |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sad | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | eyes = eye | wreaths | there | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=Source | |||
| 2 | gather | past | eyes = eye not said here | nosegays | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | eyes = eye not said here | songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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