The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 80

Why, two boys, two beautiful young princes, with hair as golden as the stars on their foreheads, and each so like the other, that at the first glance every one would have known them for twins.

Who acts: one · What happens: know · To what, where: princes, first glance

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 (one), 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:pg641:3018): 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	Why	why	INTJ	_	4 boys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boys	nummod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 princes	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 princes	nummod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 princes	amod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 princes	amod
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boys	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 princes	nmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 golden	advmod
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 stars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stars	det
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 golden	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 foreheads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foreheads	nmod:poss
20	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stars	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 each	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 each	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 boys	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 other	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 other	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 known	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 known	mark
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 glance	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 glance	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 glance	amod
33	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 known	obl
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 known	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 known	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 known	aux
38	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 other	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 known	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 twins	case
41	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 known	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would · perfect	every one	princes = prince		the first glance		for twins	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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