The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 151
The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of this deathlike stillness.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: long, come, relieve · To what, where: monotony
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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:pg640:3732): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 longed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 relieve | cc |
| 9 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monotony | det |
| 11 | monotony | monotony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relieve | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stillness | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 stillness | det |
| 14 | deathlike | deathlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stillness | amod |
| 15 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 monotony | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | the Emperor | for something | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | relieve | infinitive | the Emperor not said here | the monotony of this deathlike stillness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monotony=Experiencer |
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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