The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 42

Hearing her cries the bridegroom ran in and soothed her, and declared that she should be married in the helmet, as she could not be married without.

Who acts: bridegroom, girl · What happens: hear, run, soothe, declare, marry, not marry · To what, where: cries, bridegroom, helmet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bridegroom, 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:pg641:2750): 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ran	advcl
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cries	nmod:poss
3	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridegroom	det
5	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 soothed	cc
9	soothed	soothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 soothed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 married	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 married	nsubj:pass
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 married	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 married	aux:pass
18	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 declared	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 helmet	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 helmet	det
21	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 married	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 married	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 married	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 married	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 married	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 married	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 married	aux:pass
28	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 married	advcl
29	without	without	ADV	_	28 married	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the bridegroom not said here	girl's cries			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	run	past	the bridegroom				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	soothe	past	the bridegroom not said here	bridegroom			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	declare speech: other	past	the bridegroom not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	marry	should · passive		bridegroom	the helmet		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	not marry	could · passive		bridegroom		without property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	cry		girl				nom cry «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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