The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 47
Horrors! the dog there had two eyes, each as large as the Round Tower at Copenhagen, spinning round in his head like wheels.
Who acts: dog, two eyes · What happens: have, spin round · To what, where: two eyes, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, two eyes), 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:pg640:3292): 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 | Horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | parataxis |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Horrors | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dog | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 large | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 large | nsubj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | acl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Tower | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tower | det |
| 15 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tower | compound |
| 16 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 large | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Copenhagen | case |
| 18 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tower | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spinning | punct |
| 20 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 eyes | acl |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 spinning | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spinning | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 wheels | case |
| 26 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spinning | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the dog | two eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spin round | gerund | two eyes not said here | soldier's head | like wheels; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in head=Trajectory |
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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