The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 45
Next morning she rose feeling quite cheerful and free from care, but when she looked across towards the stables, there stood the tailor in front of the door looking as fresh and lively as a fish in the water.
Who acts: Princess, tailor · What happens: rise, feel, look, stand · To what, where: front
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, tailor), 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:pg7277:3342): 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 cheerful | advmod |
| 7 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 free | cc |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheerful | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 care | case |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 free | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | advcl |
| 17 | across | across | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 stables | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stables | det |
| 20 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 stood | expl |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tailor | det |
| 25 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 front | nmod |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 stood | advcl |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 fresh | advmod |
| 33 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 looking | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lively | cc |
| 35 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fresh | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 fish | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 fish | det |
| 38 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fresh | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 water | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 water | det |
| 41 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fish | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Princess | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Princess not said here | cheerful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Princess | towards the stables; across property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards stable=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the tailor | front of the door; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the tailor not said here | fresh property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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