The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 105
The three rogues, having wreaked their vengeance, set out, for home.
Who acts: three rogues · What happens: wreak, set out · To what, where: vengeance
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three rogues), 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:pg7277:2090): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rogues | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 rogues | nummod |
| 3 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wreaked | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wreaked | aux |
| 6 | wreaked | wreak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 set | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 vengeance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wreaked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wreaked | punct |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 home | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreak | gerund · perfect | the three rogues not said here | sheep's vengeance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | the three rogues | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/105/