The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 67
But even so he got on no better, for he could see nothing but fire and smoke.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: get on, see · To what, where: nothing
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), 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:pg641:1623): 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 better | advmod |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | but | but | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smoke | cc |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | past | Petru | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Petru | nothing | but fire and smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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