The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 70
At any rate, he carried me off at a prodigious speed, and set me gently down in this very castle of which you are now the master.
Who acts: word, you · What happens: carry off, set down, be · To what, where: me, rate, very castle, master
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, you), 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:pg7277:2707): 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 rate | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 rate | det |
| 3 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rate | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carried | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 speed | det |
| 11 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 castle | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 master | nmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 master | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 master | cop |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 master | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 master | det |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 castle | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | word | me | any rate | at a prodigious speed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 2 | set down | past | word not said here | me | this very castle | down, gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in castle=Destination | ||
| 3 | is a | present | you | the master | now | of this very castle | 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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