The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 65
The third witch gave the girl a magic purse, filled with money.
Who acts: third witch · What happens: give, fill · To what, where: magic purse, girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third witch), 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:pg641:3122): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 purse | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 purse | compound |
| 9 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 purse | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 money | case |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the third witch | a magic purse | the girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a magic purse not said here | with money | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with money=Instrument |
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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