The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 53
So he went to the royal palace, and as he entered the door the first people he saw were his two brothers who had so shamefully ill-treated him.
Who acts: Ferko, first people, two brothers · What happens: go, enter, see, be, treat · To what, where: royal palace, door, first people, two brothers, Ferko
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, first people, two brothers), 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:pg640:938): 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palace | amod |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brothers | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 entered | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brothers | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brothers | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brothers | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brothers | nummod |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 treated | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 treated | aux |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 shamefully | advmod |
| 27 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 30 treated | advmod |
| 28 | ill | ill | ADV | _ | 30 treated | advmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 treated | punct |
| 30 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 treated | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ferko | the royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Ferko | the door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ferko | the first people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the first people | Ferko's two brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | treat | past · perfect | Ferko's two brothers | Ferko | ill, shamefully property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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