The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 161
His screams brought the neighbours from their cottages, but they were unable to explain how it had all come about.
Who acts: screams, body, husband · What happens: bring, be, explain, come about, scream · To what, where: neighbours, cottages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (screams, body, husband), 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:pg641:162): 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 screams | nmod:poss |
| 2 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighbours | det |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cottages | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cottages | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cottages | cottage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 unable | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unable | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unable | cop |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brought | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explain | mark |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 come | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 explain | ccomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 come | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | husband's screams | the neighbours | screams's cottages | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme from cottage=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | screams = scream | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | screams = scream not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come about | past · perfect | body | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | scream | husband | nom scream «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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