The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 75
When he took courage to look out from behind the picture, he saw twelve eagles flying in.
Who acts: dog, twelve eagles · What happens: take, look out, see, fly in · To what, where: courage, picture, twelve eagles
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 (dog, twelve eagles), 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:pg640:463): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | advcl |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 courage | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 picture | case |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 picture | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 picture | det |
| 11 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eagles | nummod |
| 16 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flying | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | dog | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look out | to-infinitive | dog not said here | courage not said here | the picture | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | past | dog | twelve eagles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly in | gerund | twelve eagles not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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