The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 56

He put it on the butter-cask, and on the till, and all were of the same opinion as the waste-paper tub. and one must believe the majority.

Who acts: student, all, one · What happens: put, be, believe · To what, where: tongue, butter cask, majority

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 (student, all, 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:pg5615:124): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 cask	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cask	det
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cask	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 butter	punct
8	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 till	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 till	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 till	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 till	det
13	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cask	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 opinion	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 opinion	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 opinion	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 opinion	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 opinion	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 opinion	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 opinion	amod
21	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	27 tub	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tub	det
24	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 paper	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 waste	punct
26	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tub	compound
27	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opinion	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 believe	cc
30	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 believe	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 believe	aux
32	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 majority	det
34	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 believe	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	student	tongue	the butter cask and the till		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on cask=Destination
2	is	past	all			of the same opinion; as the paper tub	tree rules
3	believe	must	one	the majority			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majority=Stimulus

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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