The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 3
Long time ago there lived a King who had three sons; the eldest was called Szabo, the second Warza, and the youngest Iwanich.
Who acts: King · What happens: live, have, call · To what, where: three sons, eldest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg640:1977): 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | expl |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 King | acl:relcl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eldest | det |
| 14 | eldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lived | parataxis |
| 17 | Szabo | Szabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 second | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 second | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 called | conj |
| 21 | Warza | Warza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 second | orphan |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 youngest | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 youngest | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 youngest | det |
| 25 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 called | conj |
| 26 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 youngest | orphan |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King | there | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a King | three sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the eldest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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