The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 19
When they reached the hillock where he dwelt, which was higher and broader than the rest, and had a bright light hanging over the top, they coiled themselves up and waited.
Who acts: hillocks, king, hillock, bright light · What happens: reach, dwell, be, have, hang, coil up · To what, where: hillock, bright light, top, hillocks
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hillocks, king, hillock, bright light), 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:pg641:2918): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 coiled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hillock | det |
| 5 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 dwelt | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hillock | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 higher | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 higher | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 higher | cop |
| 12 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 hillock | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 broader | cc |
| 14 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 higher | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broader | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 higher | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 light | det |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | amod |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 light | acl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hanging | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 coiled | nsubj |
| 30 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 coiled | obj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 coiled | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 waited | cc |
| 34 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 coiled | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 coiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | hillocks = hillock | the hillock | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hillock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the hillock | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the hillock not said here | than the rest | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | past | the hillock not said here | a bright light | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | a bright light not said here | the top | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over top=Location | ||||
| 7 | coil up | past | hillocks = hillock | hillocks = hillock | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent themselves=Material | ||||
| 8 | wait | past | hillocks = hillock not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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