The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 53
At the same time she cautioned him with many angry words against speaking to a black girl he would most likely meet in the wood.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince · What happens: caution, speak, meet · To what, where: Prince, black girl, wood · 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 (Fairy, Prince), 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:pg640:1791): 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cautioned | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cautioned | nsubj |
| 6 | cautioned | caution | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cautioned | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cautioned | obl |
| 12 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 13 speaking | mark |
| 13 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cautioned | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speaking | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 meet | aux |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 likely | advmod |
| 21 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 22 meet | advmod |
| 22 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 girl | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meet | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cautioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caution speech: other | past | Fairy | Prince | time | with many angry words | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Fairy not said here | to a black girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | would | Prince | a black girl not said here | the wood | likely property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-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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