The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 52

But when the first rays of the rising sun fell on the garden, he saw the ten sacks all completely filled, standing there in a row, and not a single grain missing.

Who acts: first rays, youth, ten sacks · What happens: rise, fall, see, fill, stand, ray · To what, where: garden, ten sacks, row, rising sun

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: who acts (first rays, youth, ten sacks), 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:pg7277:3304): 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 fell	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rays	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 rays	amod
5	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rays	nmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sacks	det
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sacks	nummod
19	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 filled	advmod
21	completely	completely	ADV	_	22 filled	advmod
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saw	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 filled	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 standing	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 row	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 row	det
28	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 missing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 missing	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 grain	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 grain	det
33	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grain	amod
34	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 missing	nsubj
35	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 filled	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the first rays of the rising sun		the garden		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on garden=Location
3	see	past	youth	the ten sacks			tree rules
4	fill	participle	the ten sacks not said here			completely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stand	gerund	the ten sacks not said here		a row; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
6	ray			the rising sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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