The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 163
The rest of the day all was still, but no one had seen anything of the daughter.
Who acts: all, one · What happens: be, see · To what, where: anything
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 (all, one), 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:pg641:164): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 still | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rest | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 still | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 still | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 still | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anything | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | the rest of the day obl:unmarked; still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | no one | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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