The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 86
The bride, however, gave him a sleeping-draught, and he slept so soundly that he heard nothing.
Who acts: bride, maid · What happens: give, sleep, hear · To what, where: sleeping draught, maid, nothing
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 (bride, maid), 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:pg640:550): 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 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 draught | det |
| 9 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draught | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleeping | punct |
| 11 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slept | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slept | nsubj |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 soundly | advmod |
| 17 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 15 slept | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 heard | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soundly | advcl |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 heard | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the bride | a sleeping draught | maid | however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient draught=Theme | ||
| 2 | sleep | past | maid | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | maid | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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