The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 28
They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found all the people sorrowful for the old King’s death, but they became glad when they got Sigurd back to the Court, and made him King over them.
Who acts: sailors, Sigurd, old King · What happens: reach, be, rule, find, become, get · To what, where: land, people, Sigurd
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, Sigurd, old 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:pg640:3405): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | advmod |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rule | obl |
| 7 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 land | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rule | mark |
| 10 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 was | xcomp |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 King | amod |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 death | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sorrowful | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 29 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 got | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 became | advcl |
| 33 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Court | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Court | det |
| 37 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 back | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 made | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 made | cc |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 became | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 made | obj |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 made | xcomp |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 made | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | sailors = sailor | the land | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | Sigurd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past | sailors = sailor not said here | all people | sorrowful property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | |||
| 5 | become | past | sailors = sailor | glad property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | get | past | sailors = sailor | Sigurd | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sigurd=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | make | past | sailors = sailor not said here | Sigurd | over sailors = sailor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 8 | die | the old King | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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