The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 29
Although the wish appeared rather odd, they hastened to fulfil it, and the farmer was told the request of the King’s son.
Who acts: wish, parents · What happens: appear, hasten, fulfil, tell, request · To what, where: wish, farmer, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, parents), 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:pg7277:1941): 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 appeared | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wish | det |
| 3 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hastened | advcl |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 odd | advmod |
| 6 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appeared | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hastened | nsubj |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fulfil | mark |
| 11 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hastened | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fulfil | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | aux:pass |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hastened | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 request | det |
| 20 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 request | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the wish | odd property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | parents = parent | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fulfil | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | wish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the farmer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient request=Topic | |||||
| 5 | request | the King's son | nom request «communication 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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