The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 12
He opened his eyes wide, went in and found his wife dressed out in smart clothes, sitting in a splendidly furnished drawing-room.
Who acts: fisherman, wife · What happens: open, go in, find, dress out, sit, furnish · To what, where: eyes, wife, smart clothes, furnished drawing room
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, wife), 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:pg7277:3217): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 opened | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 dressed | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 16 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 dressed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sitting | punct |
| 19 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dressed | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 22 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 23 furnished | advmod |
| 23 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 room | amod |
| 24 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawing | punct |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sitting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | fisherman | fisherman's eyes | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | go in | past | fisherman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | fisherman not said here | fisherman's wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wife=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dress out | participle | fisherman's wife not said here | smart clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | fisherman's wife not said here | a furnished drawing room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||||
| 6 | furnish | participle | splendidly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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