The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 109
However, the fairy did not think of that, but, carried away by her new ideas, she hastily formed a Council, and named as Prime Minister the excellent ‘Ditto,’ so called because he had never been known to contradict anybody.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: not think, carry away, form, name, call, not know · To what, where: Council, excellent Ditto, prince, anybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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:pg5615:2931): 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 formed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 formed | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 formed | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 ideas | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ideas | amod |
| 18 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 formed | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 formed | nsubj |
| 21 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 22 formed | advmod |
| 22 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Council | det |
| 24 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 formed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 named | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 named | cc |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 formed | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Minister | case |
| 29 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Minister | compound |
| 30 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 named | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Ditto | det |
| 32 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Ditto | amod |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ditto | punct |
| 34 | Ditto | Ditto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 named | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ditto | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ditto | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 called | advmod |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Ditto | acl |
| 39 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 44 known | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 known | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 known | aux |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 known | advmod |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 known | aux:pass |
| 44 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 called | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 contradict | mark |
| 46 | contradict | contradict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 known | xcomp |
| 47 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 contradict | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | the fairy | of that; however property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry away | participle | fairy not said here | by fairy's new ideas; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | form | past | fairy | a Council | hastily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location council=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | past | fairy not said here | the excellent Ditto | as Prime Minister | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ditto=Theme as minister=Attribute | |||
| 5 | call | participle | the excellent Ditto not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not know | past · perfect · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | contradict | to-infinitive | anybody | 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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