The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 62

Our young traveller entered the town at this juncture, with his agreeable face and jaunty air, and all at once felt something alight upon his head, which proved to be a snow-white pigeon.

Who acts: young traveller, something · What happens: enter, feel, alight, prove, be · To what, where: town, juncture, something, white pigeon

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young traveller, something), 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:pg7277:713): 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 traveller	nmod:poss
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 traveller	amod
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 juncture	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 juncture	det
9	juncture	juncture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 face	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 face	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
13	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 face	amod
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 air	cc
16	jaunty	jaunty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 felt	cc
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 once	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 felt	obl
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 felt	obj
25	alight	alight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 felt	xcomp
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 alight	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 proved	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 proved	nsubj
31	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 something	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	38 pigeon	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 pigeon	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pigeon	det
35	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 white	obl:unmarked
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 snow	punct
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pigeon	amod
38	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 proved	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Our young traveller	the town	this juncture	with traveller's agreeable face and jaunty air	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination
2	feel	past	Our young traveller not said here	something			tree rules
3	alight	infinitive	something not said here			upon traveller's head	tree rules
4	prove	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	to-infinitive		a white pigeon			tree rules

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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