The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 29
And the Sun listened, and was sorry for her; and though he could not tell her where to go, he gave her a nut, and bid her open it in a time of great distress.
Who acts: Sun, father · What happens: listen, be, not tell, go, give, bid · To what, where: bride, nut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, father), 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:pg5615:2542): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sun | det |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorry | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 listened | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gave | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 go | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 nut | det |
| 27 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bid | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bid | cc |
| 30 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gave | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bid | obj |
| 32 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 bid | xcomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 open | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 open | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 distress | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 distress | amod |
| 39 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 time | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Sun not said here | for bride; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | could | father | bride | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give | past | father | a nut | bride | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nut=Theme | |||
| 6 | bid | past | father not said here | bride | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | open | infinitive | father not said here | nut | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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