The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 130

He eats till he has had enough, and then drinks a whole tankful of water.

Who acts: snake · What happens: eat, have, drink · To what, where: enough, whole tankful

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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:pg641:1280): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 eats	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drinks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drinks	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drinks	advmod
11	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eats	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tankful	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tankful	amod
14	tankful	tankful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drinks	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tankful	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	present	snake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present · perfect	snake	enough		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
3	drink	present	snake not said here	a whole tankful of water	then	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tankful=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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