The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 56
He heard also the story of King Farda-Kinbras, Sabella’s father.
Who acts: One · What happens: hear · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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:pg7277:1221): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 heard | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Farda | case |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Farda | compound |
| 8 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kinbras | punct |
| 10 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Farda | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 12 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Sabella | case |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Farda | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | One | the story of King Farda | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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