The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 27
The King now gave his consent, and the wedding was fixed for the very next day.
Who acts: King · What happens: give, fix, consent · To what, where: consent, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:426): 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 consent | nmod:poss |
| 6 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fixed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fixed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fixed | aux:pass |
| 12 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 next | advmod |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fixed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | King's consent | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fix | past · passive | the wedding | day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | consent | King | nom consent «communication transitive»: 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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