The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 83
They cast anchor in a little bay, and the princess made haste to disembark with Sunlight, but, before leaving the ship, she tied to her belt a pair of tiny gold slippers, adorned with precious stones.
Who acts: sails, princess · What happens: cast, make, disembark, leave, tie, adorn · To what, where: anchor, little bay, haste, ship, pair, tiny gold slippers
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sails, princess), 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:pg641:3316): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bay | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bay | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bay | amod |
| 7 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cast | conj |
| 13 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 disembark | mark |
| 15 | disembark | disembark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 haste | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Sunlight | case |
| 17 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 disembark | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tied | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 tied | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 but | punct |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 leaving | mark |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 tied | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaving | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tied | nsubj |
| 27 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cast | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 belt | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 belt | nmod:poss |
| 30 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tied | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pair | det |
| 32 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tied | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 slippers | case |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 slippers | amod |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 slippers | compound |
| 36 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pair | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 adorned | punct |
| 38 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 slippers | acl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 stones | case |
| 40 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 stones | amod |
| 41 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 adorned | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | sails = sail | anchor | a little bay | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme in bay=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | the princess | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | disembark | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | haste not said here | with Sunlight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund | princess not said here | the ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tie | past | princess | a pair of tiny gold slippers | to princess's belt | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pair=Patient to belt=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | adorn | participle | tiny gold slippers not said here | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme |
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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