The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 5
She had been wandering round and round for nine days, and she came at last to the iron case.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: wander, come · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg640:489): 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wander | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 wandering | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 round | cc |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 round | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wandering | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 case | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 case | det |
| 19 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 case | compound |
| 20 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect · progressive | daughter | day | round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | daughter | last | to the iron case | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to case=Initial_Location |
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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