The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 140
The Rose-maidens, fearing their stings, uttered little shrieks, and fled all together to a distance from the rest of the company.
Who acts: Rose maidens, maidens · What happens: fear, utter, flee, sting · To what, where: stings, little shrieks
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 (Rose maidens, maidens), 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:pg7277:638): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 2 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maidens | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rose | punct |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uttered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fearing | punct |
| 6 | fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 uttered | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fearing | punct |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shrieks | amod |
| 12 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uttered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 uttered | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 together | advmod |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 fled | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 distance | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 distance | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 company | det |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the Rose maidens not said here | maidens's stings | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sting=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the Rose maidens | little shrieks | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | the Rose maidens not said here | to a distance from the rest of the company; together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sting | maidens = maiden | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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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