The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 52
Olof knew all the plans of the Queen, and went to tell the Princess what had been done, whereupon Hadvor earnestly entreated her to tell her what to do.
Who acts: Olof, Hadvor · What happens: know, go, tell, do, entreat, plan · To what, where: plans, Princess, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olof, Hadvor), 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:pg640:3819): 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 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plans | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plans | det |
| 5 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plans | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whereupon | punct |
| 21 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | _ | 24 entreated | advmod |
| 22 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 entreated | nsubj |
| 23 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 24 entreated | advmod |
| 24 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | parataxis |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 entreated | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 tell | mark |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 entreated | xcomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | obj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 do | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Olof | all plans of the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Olof not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Olof not said here | the Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | entreat | past | Hadvor | Queen | earnestly, whereupon property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Hadvor not said here | Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | plan | the Queen | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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