The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 61
Passing into it, they entered a long underground passage, which led out on to a wide field, above which spread a blue sky.
Who acts: gold, long underground passage, blue sky · What happens: pass, enter, lead out, spread · To what, where: opening, long underground passage, wide field
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, long underground passage, blue sky), 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:pg640:2212): 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 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 entered | advcl |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Passing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Passing | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passage | amod |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passage | amod |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 led | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passage | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 led | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 field | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 field | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 field | det |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 field | amod |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spread | obl |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 field | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sky | amod |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spread | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | gold not said here | opening | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | gold | a long underground passage | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lead out | past | a long underground passage | a wide field | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on field=Destination | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | a blue sky | a wide field | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above which=Location |
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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