Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 20
Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slain the wolf that had tried to destroy Llewelyn's heir.
Who acts: Gellert, wolf · What happens: stay, guard, fight, slay, try, destroy · To what, where: child, wolf, heir
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gellert, wolf), 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:pg7885:1749): 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 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | aux |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 guard | mark |
| 6 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guard | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fought | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | aux |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slain | cc |
| 13 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolf | det |
| 15 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slain | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | aux |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 destroy | mark |
| 20 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heir | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Llewelyn | case |
| 23 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 destroy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · perfect | Gellert | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | Gellert not said here | the child | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | fight | past · perfect | Gellert not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slay | participle | Gellert not said here | the wolf | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient | ||||
| 5 | try | past · perfect | the wolf | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | Llewelyn's heir | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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