The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 29

So they went sorrowing home, and when they were out of sight the rose bush and rose returned to their proper shapes and walked all the faster for the little rest they had had.

Who acts: stream, rose bush · What happens: go, sorrow, be, return, walk, have · To what, where: sight, little rest

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, rose bush), 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:pg641:890): 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	xcomp
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 returned	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sight	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sight	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sight	cop
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 sight	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sight	case
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returned	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bush	det
15	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bush	compound
16	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returned	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rose	cc
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bush	conj
19	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 shapes	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shapes	nmod:poss
22	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shapes	amod
23	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 returned	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walked	cc
25	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 returned	conj
26	all	all	ADV	_	28 faster	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 faster	det
28	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 walked	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rest	amod
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walked	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	aux
35	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 rest	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	stream			home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sorrow	gerund	stream not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	stream		sight		tree rules
4	return	past	the rose bush and rose			to stream's proper shapes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result
5	walk	past	the rose bush and rose not said here			for the little rest; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past · perfect	stream	the little rest not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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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