The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 53
He went at once to fetch his brothers, and with their help dragged a lot of pine-wood and ropes to the spot.
Who acts: abyss, BROTHERS · What happens: go, fetch, drag, help · To what, where: brothers, lot, spot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (abyss, 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:pg640:1693): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fetch | mark |
| 6 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fetch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dragged | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obl |
| 14 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lot | det |
| 16 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 18 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wood | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pine | punct |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lot | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ropes | cc |
| 22 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wood | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | abyss | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | abyss not said here | abyss's brothers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | abyss not said here | a lot of pine wood and ropes | the spot | with BROTHERS's help | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme to spot=Destination | ||
| 4 | help | BROTHERS = brother | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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