The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 106
They had one little daughter, whom they had named ‘Rosanella,’ because she had a little pink rose printed upon her white throat.
Who acts: husband, daughter · What happens: have, name, print · To what, where: one little daughter, little pink rose
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, daughter), 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:pg7277:609): 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 daughter | nummod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 named | punct |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 named | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 named | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 named | aux |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rosanella | punct |
| 12 | Rosanella | Rosanella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rosanella | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rosanella | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rose | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rose | amod |
| 20 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rose | amod |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 rose | acl | |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 throat | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 throat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 throat | amod |
| 26 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 printed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | husband | one little daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | past · perfect | husband | one little daughter | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | daughter | a little pink rose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient | ||||
| 4 | participle | a little pink rose not said here | upon daughter's white throat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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