The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 85
He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrounded it without a single bridge by which to cross.
Who acts: griffin, wide moat · What happens: come, surround, cross · To what, where: church
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, wide moat), 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:pg5615:2279): 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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moat | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 moat | cc |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 moat | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 moat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moat | det |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moat | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deep | cc |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wide | conj |
| 14 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 it | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 surrounded | nsubj |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moat | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 surrounded | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 bridge | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bridge | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bridge | amod |
| 21 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounded | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 cross | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 cross | mark |
| 25 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | griffin | church | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | surround | past | the wide moat | church | without a single bridge | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | the wide moat not said here | by a single bridge | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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