The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 14
‘He deserves nothing better,’ answered the beggar, ‘for it was an ill deed.
Who acts: man, beggar · What happens: deserve, answer, be · To what, where: nothing, ill deed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, beggar), 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:pg5615:93): 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 | _ | 3 deserves | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deserves | nsubj |
| 3 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 deserves | obj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserves | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserves | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beggar | det |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 deed | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 deed | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deed | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 deed | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deed | det |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deed | amod |
| 18 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deserves | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | man | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the beggar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | beggar | a ill deed | 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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