The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 35

She cherished the basket and the egg as her chiefest treasures, and had a golden case made for the basket, so that when the time came to lay the egg in it, it might not risk any harm.

Who acts: woman, time, basket · What happens: cherish, have, make, come, lay, not risk · To what, where: basket, golden case, egg, harm

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time, basket), 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:pg641:945): 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	2 cherished	nsubj
2	cherished	cherish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cherished	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 egg	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 basket	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 treasures	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 treasures	nmod:poss
10	chiefest	chief	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 treasures	amod
11	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cherished	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cherished	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 case	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 case	amod
17	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 case	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 basket	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 basket	det
21	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 risk	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	39 risk	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 risk	mark
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 risk	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 lay	mark
30	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 came	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 egg	det
32	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 risk	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 risk	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 risk	advmod
39	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 harm	det
41	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 risk	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cherished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cherish	past	woman	the basket and the egg		as woman's chiefest treasures	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus
2	have	past	woman not said here	a golden case			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient
3	make	participle		a golden case not said here		for the basket	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for basket=Asset
4	come	past	the time				tree rules
5	lay	to-infinitive	the time not said here	the egg	basket		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in it=Destination
6	not risk	might	basket	any harm			vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Pivot
7	treasure		woman				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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