The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 76
‘Go and collect all the dew that lies on the leaves, and let us swim in it.
Who acts: you, dew, us · What happens: go, collect, lie, let, swim · To what, where: dew, leaves, us
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 (you, dew, us), 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:pg641:3014): 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 collect | cc |
| 4 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dew | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dew | det |
| 7 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collect | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dew | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 leaves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lies | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swim | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | collect | infinitive | you not said here | all dew | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | all dew | the leaves | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swim | infinitive | us not said here | dew | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
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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