English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 28
Now it happened that in the course of his journey there lived a rich man with his only daughter, a beautiful girl, but deaf and dumb.
Who acts: rich man, donkey · What happens: happen, live, journey · To what, where: keeper, course
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, donkey), 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:pg7439:1379): 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | expl |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 course | det |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 course | nmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | _ | 12 lived | expl |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deaf | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 deaf | cc |
| 26 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dumb | cc |
| 28 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deaf | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | keeper | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a rich man with donkey's only daughter | the course of donkey's journey; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location | ||||
| 3 | journey | donkey | nom journey «act 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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