The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 173
He hastened quickly towards it, and curling himself up in a warm corner soon fell asleep.
Who acts: youth · What happens: hasten, curl up, fall · To what, where: place, youth, warm corner
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg641:354): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 hastened | advmod |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 8 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fell | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 curling | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 curling | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 corner | amod |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curling | obl |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | advmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | conj |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | youth | place | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination | |||
| 2 | curl up | gerund | youth | a warm corner | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | youth not said here | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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