The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 10
As they drew near the three sisters, and marked their beauty, they checked their horses and rode slowly by.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: draw, mark, check, ride · To what, where: beauty, horses
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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:pg641:2955): 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 checked | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 sisters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sisters | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marked | cc |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 checked | nsubj |
| 15 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 checked | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 checked | conj |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 rode | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADV | _ | 19 rode | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | sisters = sister | near the three sisters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters's beauty | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beauty=Destination | ||||
| 3 | check | past | sisters = sister | sisters's horses | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | sisters = sister not said here | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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