Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 61
Then they celebrated their son's marriage to the clever Princess with all imaginable pomp; but the bride was so clever, she would not rest until she had made known her husband to his father, and punished the wicked white witch.
Who acts: people, bride, husband, son · What happens: celebrate, be, not rest, make, know, punish · To what, where: marriage, husband, wicked white witch
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bride, husband, son), 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:pg7128:1347): 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 celebrated | nsubj |
| 3 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 son | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celebrated | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 10 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marriage | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pomp | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 pomp | det |
| 14 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pomp | amod |
| 15 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celebrated | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 clever | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 clever | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bride | det |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clever | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 clever | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 clever | advmod |
| 22 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 celebrated | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rest | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rest | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 rest | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 rest | advmod |
| 27 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 clever | advcl |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 made | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 rest | advcl |
| 32 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | xcomp |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 father | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 punished | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 punished | cc |
| 40 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 witch | det |
| 42 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 witch | amod |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 witch | amod |
| 44 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 punished | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past | people | people's son's marriage | then | to the clever Princess; with all imaginable pomp | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the bride | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not rest | would | bride | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | bride | bride's husband | to son's father | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | participle | bride's husband not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | punish | participle | bride not said here | the wicked white witch | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient | ||||
| 7 | marry | people's son | to the clever Princess | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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