The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 53

Then she resumed her natural shape, and he found that the bird was no other than the Queen Constance, whom he had long believed to be dead.

Who acts: bird, king · What happens: resume, find, be, believe · To what, where: natural shape, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, king), 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:pg640:823): 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 resumed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 resumed	nsubj
3	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shape	nmod:poss
5	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shape	amod
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resumed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resumed	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 other	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 other	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 other	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	ccomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 Queen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Queen	det
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 other	obl
20	Constance	Constance	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Queen	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whom	punct
22	whom	whom	PRON	Case=Acc PronType=Rel	26 believed	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believed	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 believed	aux
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 believed	advmod
26	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 Queen	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 dead	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 dead	cop
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 believed	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resume	past	bird	bird's natural shape	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
2	find	past	king				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the bird			than the Queen; other property	tree rules
4	believe	past · perfect	king	the Queen		long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	is	to-infinitive	king not said here			dead property	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 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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