The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 70
But whatever they did, the result was always the same.
Who acts: sons, result · What happens: do, be · To what, where: whatever
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, result), 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:pg641:2547): 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 | _ | 11 same | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 same | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 result | det |
| 7 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 same | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 same | cop |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 same | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sons = son | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the result | always, same property | tree rules |
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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