The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 19

Then he added: ‘My king will scold me for my long absence, everyone else is housed for the winter, and I am very late.

Who acts: serpent, king, I, my · What happens: add, scold, house, be, absent · To what, where: me, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (serpent, king, I, my), 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:pg7277:532): 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 added	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 added	nsubj
3	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 scold	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 scold	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 king	nmod:poss
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scold	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 scold	aux
9	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 added	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 scold	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 absence	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 absence	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 absence	amod
14	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 housed	punct
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 housed	nsubj:pass
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 everyone	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 housed	aux:pass
19	housed	house	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 scold	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 winter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 winter	det
22	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 housed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 late	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 late	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 late	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 late	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 late	advmod
28	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scold	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	serpent		then		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scold	future	My king	me		for my long absence	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for absence=Attribute
3	house	present · passive		everyone	winter		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
4	is	present	I			late property	tree rules
5	absent		my				nom absence «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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