The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 70

So she went straight to the stables where the most beautiful horses in the empire were feeding in the stalls, but none of them seemed quite what she wanted.

Who acts: thing, beautiful horses, none · What happens: go, feed, seem, want · To what, where: stables, stalls

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, beautiful horses, none), 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:pg641:3207): 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 stables	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stables	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stables	det
7	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 feeding	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horses	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 beautiful	advmod
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horses	amod
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feeding	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 empire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 empire	det
15	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horses	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feeding	aux
17	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stables	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stalls	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stalls	det
20	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feeding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	26 seemed	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 none	nmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 what	advmod
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 seemed	xcomp
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go	past	thing	the stables	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
2	feed	past · progressive	the beautiful horses in the empire	the stalls	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location
3	seem	past	none		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	want	past	thing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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