The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 47
Jack my Hedgehog continued to herd his pigs, and they increased in number till there were so many that the forest seemed full of them.
Who acts: Jack, pigs, many, forest · What happens: continue, herd, increase, be, seem · To what, where: pigs, number
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, pigs, many, forest), 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:pg7277:3184): 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | flat |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 herd | mark |
| 6 | herd | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 herd | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 increased | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 increased | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 increased | nsubj |
| 12 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 number | case |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 increased | obl |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 were | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 were | expl |
| 17 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 increased | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 were | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 many | advcl |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 full | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Jack | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | herd | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's pigs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 3 | increase | past | pigs = pig | number | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | many | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | the forest | full property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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