The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 90
As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey suddenly appeared on a point of rock and said: ‘Poor sorrowing people, you are seeking your Prince in vain.
Who acts: followers, black monkey, you · What happens: hunt, shout, appear, say, sorrow, seek · To what, where: trees, point, Prince, vain, rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (followers, black monkey, you), 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:pg640:1542): 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 hunting | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hunting | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunting | aux |
| 4 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 appeared | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shouting | cc |
| 6 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hunting | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shouting | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monkey | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monkey | amod |
| 12 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 appeared | advmod |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 point | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 point | det |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 point | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 seeking | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 seeking | punct |
| 24 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 25 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seeking | vocative |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 people | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 seeking | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 seeking | aux |
| 30 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 said | ccomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seeking | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 vain | case |
| 34 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 seeking | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | followers = follower | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | followers = follower not said here | the trees | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | a black monkey | a point of rock | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on point=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a black monkey not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sorrow | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | seek | present · progressive | you | your Prince | vain | Poor sorrowing people vocative | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in vain=Location | ||
| 7 | point | rock | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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