The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 13
A few miles from the Tontlawald was a large village, where dwelt a peasant who had recently married a young wife.
Who acts: large village, peasant · What happens: be, dwell, marry · To what, where: few miles, Tontlawald, young wife
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large village, peasant), 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:pg641:39): 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 miles | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 miles | amod |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Tontlawald | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tontlawald | det |
| 6 | Tontlawald | Tontlawald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 miles | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 miles | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 village | amod |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 miles | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwelt | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | advmod |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 village | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 peasant | det |
| 15 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 married | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | aux |
| 18 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 19 married | advmod |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 peasant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wife | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wife | amod |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 married | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 miles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a large village | a few miles | the Tontlawald | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | a peasant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect | a peasant | a young wife | recently property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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