English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 41
First came the men-at-arms and then the bridegroom's friends, and then Earl Mar's men, and then the bridegroom, and lastly, pale and beautiful, Earl Mar's daughter herself.
Who acts: men · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg7439:1432): 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 arms | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 arms | punct |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 friends | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 friends | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridegroom | det |
| 12 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bridegroom | case |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 men | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 men | advmod |
| 18 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 men | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Mar | Mar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Earl | flat |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Earl | case |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bridegroom | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bridegroom | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 bridegroom | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bridegroom | det |
| 26 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 daughter | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 daughter | cc |
| 29 | lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 38 daughter | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pale | punct |
| 31 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 daughter | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 beautiful | cc |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pale | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pale | punct |
| 35 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Mar | Mar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Earl | flat |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Earl | case |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | conj |
| 39 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 38 daughter | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the men at arms and the bridegroom's friends and Earl's men and the bridegroom and Earl's pale daughter Earl | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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