The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 70
This she thrust into her dress, and went back with the same care as she came.
Who acts: princess · What happens: thrust, go back, come · To what, where: This, dress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:3392): 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thrust | obj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrust | nsubj |
| 3 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrust | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 care | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | amod |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 same | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | princess | This | princess's dress | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back | past | princess not said here | with the same care | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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