The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 18
The house I leave to my sons, who are to live in it together; the fig-tree I divide as follows.
Who acts: I, sons · What happens: leave, be, live, divide, follow · To what, where: house, sons, fig tree
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sons), 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:pg5615:3579): 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 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sons | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 are | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 live | obl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 live | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 divide | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fig | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 divide | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 divide | nsubj |
| 22 | divide | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 follows | mark |
| 24 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 divide | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | I | the house | my sons | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 2 | does | present | my sons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | my sons not said here | house | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | |||
| 4 | divide | present | I | the fig tree | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | I not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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