The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 84
Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge.
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: 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:pg641:3022): 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 | Thrice | thrice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 age | case |
| 3 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrice | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thrice | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thrice | cc |
| 6 | thrice | thrice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Thrice | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wisdom | case |
| 8 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrice | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thrice | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thrice | cc |
| 11 | thrice | thrice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Thrice | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 knowledge | case |
| 13 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrice | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thrice | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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