The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 135
The flowers went on beseeching him, and his heart grew ever weaker and weaker.
Who acts: flowers, heart · What happens: go on, beseech, grow · To what, where: horse
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 (flowers, heart), 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:pg641:1680): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | beseeching | beseech | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beseeching | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 weaker | advmod |
| 13 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weaker | cc |
| 15 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 weaker | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the flowers | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beseech | gerund | the flowers not said here | horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | horse's heart | weak property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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