The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 33
Meantime Jack minded his asses and pigs, sat aloft in his tree, played his bagpipes, and was always merry and cheery.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: mind, sit, play, be · To what, where: asses, tree, bagpipes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg7277:3170): 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 | Meantime | meantime | ADV | _ | 3 minded | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 minded | nsubj |
| 3 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 asses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 minded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pigs | cc |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asses | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 minded | conj |
| 10 | aloft | aloft | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tree | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 played | punct |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 minded | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bagpipes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 played | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 merry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 merry | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 merry | cop |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 merry | advmod |
| 22 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minded | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cheery | cc |
| 24 | cheery | cheery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 merry | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | past | Jack | Jack's asses and pigs | meantime property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Jack not said here | Jack's tree | aloft property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | |||
| 3 | play | past | Jack not said here | Jack's bagpipes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Jack not said here | always, merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Jack not said here | 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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