The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 18

So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Saphir was very fond a little mirror in a black frame, such as were often brought from Venice.

Who acts: princes, Saphir · What happens: prevent, place, be, bring · To what, where: this, little mirror, little room, Venice

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, Saphir), 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:pg640:701): 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 placed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prevent	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prevent	mark
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 placed	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 prevent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prevent	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 placed	nsubj
8	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 room	det
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fond	obl
16	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fond	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mirror	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mirror	amod
22	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 frame	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 frame	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 frame	amod
26	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mirror	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	32 brought	mark
29	as	as	ADP	_	28 such	fixed
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux:pass
31	often	often	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 mirror	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 Venice	case
34	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 brought	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	princes = prince not said here	this			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme
2	place	past	princes = prince	a little mirror	a little room	in a black frame	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme in room=Destination
3	is	past	Saphir			of a little room; fond property	tree rules
4	bring	past · passive		a little mirror not said here	Venice	often property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from venice=Initial_Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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