The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 2
Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, there lived a long time ago a beautiful maiden, who was lovelier than any other girl in the whole tribe.
Who acts: Red Indians, beautiful maiden · What happens: dwell, live, be · To what, where: North America
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Indians, beautiful maiden), 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:pg640:1891): 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 America | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 America | compound |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwell | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 dwell | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indians | det |
| 10 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Indians | amod |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 dwell | nsubj |
| 12 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 America | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwell | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 lived | expl |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lovelier | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lovelier | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lovelier | cop |
| 26 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 girl | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 girl | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 girl | amod |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lovelier | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 tribe | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tribe | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tribe | amod |
| 34 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 girl | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | the Red Indians | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | past | a beautiful maiden | North America; there | ago, away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | a beautiful maiden | than any other girl in the whole tribe; lovely property | 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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