Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 8

He turned back in a rage to his castle, and as he came to the gate, who should he see but Gellert come bounding out to meet him.

Who acts: Gellert · What happens: turn back, come, see, bound out, meet · To what, where: rage, gate, Gellert

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), 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:pg7885:1737): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rage	det
6	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 castle	nmod:poss
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	22 see	obj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	conj
23	but	but	ADP	_	24 Gellert	case
24	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 who	nmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	xcomp
26	bounding	bound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 come	xcomp
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 bounding	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bounding	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 meet	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	Gellert		a rage	to Gellert's castle	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to castle=Destination
2	come	past	Gellert		the gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
3	see	should	Gellert			but Gellert	tree rules
4	come	infinitive	Gellert not said here				tree rules
5	bound out	gerund	Gellert not said here			out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	meet	to-infinitive	Gellert not said here	Gellert			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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: «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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