The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 52
And the moment the year, the month, the week, and the day were over Costan mounted his horse and took leave of his youngest brother.
Who acts: year, Costan · What happens: be, mount, take · To what, where: moment, horse, leave
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 (year, Costan), 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:pg641:1608): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 over | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 month | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 week | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 day | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 over | cop |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | nsubj |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mounted | conj |
| 24 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 brother | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the year and the month and the week and the day | the moment not said here | over property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Costan | Costan's horse | moment | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | Costan not said here | leave of Costan's youngest brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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