The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 187
On the first story one window was lighted, and John saw on the curtains the shadow of the Princess.
Who acts: John · What happens: light, see, shadow · To what, where: one window, first story, shadow, curtains, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg7277:1743): 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lighted | obl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 window | nummod |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lighted | aux:pass |
| 8 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lighted | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 curtains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 curtains | det |
| 15 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shadow | det |
| 17 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shadow | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · passive | one window | the first story | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | past | John | the shadow of the Princess | the curtains | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shadow | the Princess | nom shadow «state 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: «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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