Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 75
At the sight of them the young Princes were very much astonished, and still more so on learning their story; and they settled that each should take one of these poor forlorn ladies home with him, and marry her.
Who acts: young Princes, Princesses, each · What happens: be, learn, settle, take, marry, sight · To what, where: sight, story, one, wife, Princesses
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, 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 (young Princes, Princesses, each), 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:pg7128:360): 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 astonished | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princes | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princes | amod |
| 8 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 so | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 so | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 so | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | conj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 learning | mark |
| 19 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 so | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 story | nmod:poss |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learning | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 settled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 settled | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 settled | nsubj |
| 25 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 settled | ccomp |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 ladies | case |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 ladies | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ladies | amod |
| 34 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ladies | amod |
| 35 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 36 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 marry | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 marry | cc |
| 41 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 marry | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Princes | the sight of Princesses | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | gerund | the young Princes not said here | Princesses's story | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | Princesses = princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | should | each | one of this poor forlorn ladies | with Prince; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 5 | marry | infinitive | each not said here | wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sight | Princesses = princess | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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