The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 42
On this he was led out to a large lake, and a gold ring was thrown into it before his eyes.
What happens: lead out, throw · To what, where: youth, this, gold ring, lake
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:3296): 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 led | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux:pass |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 led | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lake | amod |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrown | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thrown | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ring | compound |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thrown | aux:pass |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 led | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thrown | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thrown | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past · passive | youth | this | to a large lake; out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on this=Destination | |||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | a gold ring | lake | before youth's eyes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into it=Result |
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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