The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 41
But the helmet would not come, and the harder they pulled, the faster it seemed to be, till the poor girl yelled with pain.
Who acts: helmet, neighbours, it, poor girl · What happens: not come, pull, be, seem, yell
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmet, neighbours, it, poor girl), 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:pg641:2749): 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 | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 helmet | det |
| 3 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seemed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 harder | det |
| 10 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 pulled | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | nsubj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seemed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 faster | det |
| 15 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 faster | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 faster | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yelled | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 yelled | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yelled | nsubj |
| 25 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seemed | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pain | case |
| 27 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yelled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | would | the helmet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pull | past | neighbours = neighbour | hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | fast property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | yell speech: express | past | the poor girl | with pain | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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