The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 97

When he touched it it could be heard over eight kingdoms, and all the other kings sat and were angry because they had not one like it.

Who acts: king, other kings, kingdoms · What happens: touch, hear, sit, be, have · To what, where: stone, eight kingdoms, one

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 (king, other kings, kingdoms), 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:pg5615:2921): 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 touched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj:pass
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 kingdoms	case
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 kingdoms	nummod
11	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 kings	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kings	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kings	amod
17	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 angry	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 angry	cop
21	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sat	conj
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 angry	advcl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 one	advmod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	king	stone			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	hear	could · passive		stone	eight kingdoms		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	sit	past	all other kings				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	all other kings not said here			angry property	tree rules
5	have	past	kingdoms = kingdom	one		like stone	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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