The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 177

After some time he thought that in the midst of all their shrieks he could make out the words, ‘Do not tell Schippeitaro!

Who acts: moon, pillars · What happens: think, make out, not tell, shriek · To what, where: words, midst, Schippeitaro · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (moon, pillars), 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:pg641:358): 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 make	mark
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 midst	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midst	det
9	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 shrieks	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 shrieks	det:predet
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shrieks	nmod:poss
13	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 midst	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
22	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 tell	advmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 words	appos
25	Schippeitaro	Schippeitaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	moon				time	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make out	could	moon	the words		the midst of pillars's shrieks		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support			Schippeitaro			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent schippeitaro=Recipient
4	shriek		pillars = pillar					nom shriek «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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