The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 5
In a part of the world whose name I forget lived once upon a time two kings, called Peridor and Diamantino.
Who acts: I, two kings · What happens: forget, live, call · To what, where: name, part, two kings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, two kings), 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:pg640:688): 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forget | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 forget | nsubj |
| 10 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 world | acl:relcl |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 kings | nummod |
| 17 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kings | acl |
| 20 | Peridor | Peridor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Diamantino | cc |
| 22 | Diamantino | Diamantino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Peridor | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | I | name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | two kings | a part of the world | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||
| 3 | call | participle | two kings not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 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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