The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 77
They loaded their carriages with bales of the finest linen they could find and then returned home.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: load, find, return · To what, where: carriages, finest linen
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg7277:2358): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loaded | nsubj |
| 2 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 carriages | nmod:poss |
| 4 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaded | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 bales | case |
| 6 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaded | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 linen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 linen | det |
| 9 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 linen | amod |
| 10 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bales | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 linen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 returned | advmod |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loaded | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 returned | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past | brothers = brother | brothers's carriages | with bales of the finest linen | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent carriage=Destination with bale=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | could | brothers = brother | the finest linen not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | past | brothers = brother not said here | then | home property | 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.
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