The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 78
It was here that I fled after I had gazed on the Princess Argentine, but instead of love I only saw scorn and contempt.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, flee, gaze, see · To what, where: scorn
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (I), 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:pg640:1125): 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 here | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 fled | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 gazed | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gazed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gazed | aux |
| 10 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fled | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Argentine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Argentine | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Argentine | compound |
| 14 | Argentine | Argentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 love | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | conj |
| 23 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 contempt | cc |
| 25 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scorn | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flee | past | I | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past · perfect | I | on the Princess Argentine | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on argentine=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | scorn and contempt | instead love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scorn=Stimulus |
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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