Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 6
Presently they had to wade through a stream that ran along the edge of the cemetery.
Who acts: thoughts, stream · What happens: have, wade, run · To what, where: stream, edge
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, stream), 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:pg7128:1908): 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wade | mark |
| 5 | wade | wade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wade | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stream | acl:relcl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cemetery | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cemetery | det |
| 16 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | thoughts = thought | presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wade | to-infinitive | thoughts = thought not said here | a stream | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through stream=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a stream | the edge of the cemetery | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along edge=Trajectory |
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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