The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 1

So he gathered his family round him, and said his last words to them.

Who acts: he, his · What happens: gather, say, word · To what, where: family, last words, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, his), 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:pg640:1745): 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 gathered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 words	nmod:poss
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	he	his family		round him = he	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here	his last words	words = word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to they=Recipient
3	word		his = he				nom word «communication 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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