The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 42

Here was a deep, deep trench that girdled it the whole way round, and there was only a single bridge by which the trench could be crossed.

Who acts: deep deep trench, single bridge · What happens: be, girdle, cross · To what, where: trench

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 (deep deep trench, single bridge), 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:pg641:1598): 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	advmod
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trench	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trench	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trench	amod
7	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 girdled	nsubj
9	girdled	girdle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trench	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 girdled	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 round	obl:unmarked
14	round	round	ADV	_	9 girdled	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 bridge	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bridge	det
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bridge	amod
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 crossed	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trench	det
26	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crossed	nsubj:pass
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 crossed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 crossed	aux:pass
29	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bridge	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a deep deep trench		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	girdle	past	a deep deep trench	trench		round property	tree rules
3	be	past	a single bridge		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	could · passive	a single bridge	the trench			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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