The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 3
But for you, O my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wickedness, unkindness, and ingratitude from which I fled are before you.
Who acts: I, wickedness · What happens: begin, flee, be · To what, where: lives, wickedness
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 (I, wickedness), 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:pg640:1747): 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 you | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 you | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 5 | O | O | INTJ | _ | 7 children | discourse |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 you | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begun | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 lives | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 begun | aux:pass |
| 12 | but | but | ADV | _ | 14 begun | advmod |
| 13 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 14 begun | advmod |
| 14 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 children | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begun | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wickedness | det |
| 17 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 you | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unkindness | punct |
| 19 | unkindness | unkindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wickedness | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ingratitude | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ingratitude | cc |
| 22 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wickedness | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fled | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fled | nsubj |
| 26 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wickedness | acl:relcl |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 you | cop |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 you | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present · passive | lives | but, newly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | I | the wickedness and unkindness and ingratitude | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the wickedness and unkindness and ingratitude | before you | for you; my children vocative | tree rules |
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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