Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 40

Tom contrived not to kill any one; and the princess was so amused, that she let a great sweet laugh out of her that was heard over all the yard.

Who acts: Tom, princess · What happens: contrive, not kill, be, let, hear · To what, where: one, great sweet laugh

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, princess), 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:pg7885:2111): 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 contrived	nsubj
2	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 kill	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kill	mark
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 contrived	xcomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kill	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 amused	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amused	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 amused	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amused	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 amused	advmod
14	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 contrived	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 let	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amused	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 laugh	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laugh	amod
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laugh	amod
22	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 her	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 heard	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux:pass
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 laugh	acl:relcl
29	over	over	ADP	_	32 yard	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 yard	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 yard	det
32	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	contrive	past	Tom			tree rules
2	not kill	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	any one		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is	past	the princess		amused property	tree rules
4	let	past	princess	a great sweet laugh	out mother	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
5	hear	past · passive		a great sweet laugh	over all yard	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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