The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 121

As the prince had expected the peas had taken root, and grown into a little hedge, so that they were sure they would not lose the path.

Who acts: prince, peas · What happens: expect, take, grow, be, not lose · To what, where: root, little hedge, path

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, peas), 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:pg641:859): 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 expected	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expected	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expected	aux
5	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 taken	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peas	det
7	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grown	cc
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 taken	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 hedge	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hedge	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hedge	amod
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grown	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sure	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 sure	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sure	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sure	cop
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 taken	advcl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lose	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lose	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 lose	advmod
27	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sure	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 path	det
29	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lose	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past · perfect	the prince			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · perfect	the peas	root		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
3	grow	participle	the peas not said here		into a little hedge result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hedge=Result
4	is	past	peas = pea		sure property	tree rules
5	not lose	would	peas = pea	the path		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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