The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 116

Petru stood and stared as a man does when he sees something that he has never seen, and of which he has never heard.

Who acts: Petru, man · What happens: stand, stare, do, see, not see, not hear · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, man), 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:pg641:1664): 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	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stared	cc
4	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stared	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sees	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sees	nsubj
11	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 does	advcl
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 sees	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seen	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 something	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 heard	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 heard	advmod
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 seen	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stand	past	Petru		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	past	Petru not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	a man		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	Petru	something	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
5	not see	present · perfect	Petru		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
6	not hear	present · perfect	Petru		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=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 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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