The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 96
In her excitement she never gave a thought to the rough clothes she had worn the day before, which had disappeared as if by magic during the night.
Who acts: Elsa, rough clothes · What happens: not give, wear, disappear, excite · To what, where: thought, rough clothes, excitement
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 (Elsa, rough clothes), 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:pg641:106): 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 excitement | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 excitement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 gave | advmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 clothes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clothes | det |
| 11 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clothes | amod |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 gave | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 worn | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 worn | aux |
| 15 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worn | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 day | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disappeared | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 disappeared | aux |
| 22 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 magic | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 magic | case |
| 26 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disappeared | obl |
| 27 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disappeared | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past | Elsa | a thought | the rough clothes | Elsa's excitement | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to clothes=Recipient | ||
| 2 | wear | past · perfect | Elsa | the rough clothes not said here | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | |||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the rough clothes | night | by magic | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | excite | Elsa | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: 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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