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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

marknsubjauxadvclccconjcasedetobldetamodnsubjadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodccconjpunctpunctamodamodvocativepunctnsubjauxccompnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctrootAsSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXhuntingVERBandCCONJshoutingVERBthroughADPtheDETtreesNOUNaDETblackADJmonkeyNOUNsuddenlyADVappearedVERBonADPaDETpointNOUNofADProckNOUNandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT‘PUNCTPoorADJsorrowingVERBpeopleNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONareAUXseekingVERByourPRONPrinceNOUNinADPvainADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_4 huntingmark
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 huntingnsubj
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 huntingaux
4huntinghuntVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 appearedadvcl
5andandCCONJ_6 shoutingcc
6shoutingshoutVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 huntingconj
7throughthroughADP_9 treescase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 treesdet
9treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur6 shoutingobl
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 monkeydet
11blackblackADJDegree=Pos12 monkeyamod
12monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing14 appearednsubj
13suddenlysuddenlyADV_14 appearedadvmod
14appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15ononADP_17 pointcase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 pointdet
17pointpointNOUNNumber=Sing14 appearedobl
18ofofADP_19 rockcase
19rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing17 pointnmod
20andandCCONJ_21 saidcc
21saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 appearedconj
22::PUNCT_30 seekingpunct
23‘'PUNCT_30 seekingpunct
24PoorpoorADJDegree=Pos26 peopleamod
25sorrowingsorrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 peopleamod
26peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur30 seekingvocative
27,,PUNCT_26 peoplepunct
28youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs30 seekingnsubj
29arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 seekingaux
30seekingseekVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 saidccomp
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 Princenmod:poss
32PrinceprinceNOUNNumber=Sing30 seekingobj
33ininADP_34 vaincase
34vainvainADJDegree=Pos30 seekingobl
35..PUNCT_14 appearedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1huntpast · progressivefollowers = followervn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2shout speech: expressgerundfollowers = follower not said herethe treesvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3appearpasta black monkeya point of rocksuddenly propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on point=Location
4say speech: assertpasta black monkey not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5sorrowgerundvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6seekpresent · progressiveyouyour PrincevainPoor sorrowing people vocativevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in vain=Location
7pointrocknom 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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