Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 43
It was afraid to ask for the ring the third time, so they both reached their sorrowing master in safety and gave him the precious charm.
Who acts: It, legs · What happens: be, ask, reach, sorrow, give · To what, where: sorrowing master, safety, precious charm, master
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, legs), 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:pg7128:1120): 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ring | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 13 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 they | det |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 master | amod |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 safety | case |
| 21 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 charm | det |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 charm | amod |
| 27 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | time | for the ring | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | legs = leg | legs's sorrowing master | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent master=Theme | |||
| 4 | sorrow | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | give | past | legs = leg not said here | the precious charm | master | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient charm=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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