The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 26
The brothers saw no reason for this, but, to get rid of Esben’s persistence, they made the exchange, and slept soundly again.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: see, get, make, sleep · To what, where: reason, exchange
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg5615:2789): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reason | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | advcl |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 persistence | case |
| 15 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 persistence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Esben | case |
| 17 | persistence | persistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 exchange | det |
| 22 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slept | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slept | cc |
| 25 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | conj |
| 26 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 25 slept | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 slept | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the brothers | no reason | for this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | past | brothers = brother | the exchange | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | brothers = brother not said here | again | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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