English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 49
She croaked and she hissed, and then hopped away down the castle steps, and Childe Wynd took his father's place as king, and they all lived happy afterwards.
Who acts: queen, Childe Wynd, steps · What happens: croak, hiss, hop away, take, live · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, Childe Wynd, steps), 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:pg7439:1641): 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 croaked | nsubj |
| 2 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hissed | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hissed | nsubj |
| 5 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 croaked | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hopped | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hopped | advmod |
| 9 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 croaked | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 hopped | advmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 steps | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steps | compound |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hopped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 17 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wynd | compound |
| 18 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 croaked | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lived | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 they | det |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 croaked | conj |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lived | xcomp |
| 32 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 30 lived | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | past | queen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hiss | past | queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hop away | past | queen not said here | then | down the castle steps; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | take | past | Childe Wynd | Childe's father's place | as king | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as king=Attribute | |||
| 5 | live | past | steps = step | afterwards, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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