The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 38
And beside the beautiful cage was the cage of gold.
Who acts: cage · What happens: be · To what, where: beautiful cage
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cage), 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:pg7277:1559): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cage | cc |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 cage | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cage | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cage | amod |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cage | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cage | det |
| 8 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cage | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cage | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cage of gold | the beautiful cage | tree rules |
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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