The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 63
No, it would be mean; she could not do it!
Who acts: object, princess · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: object
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, 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:pg3027:839): 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mean | cop |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mean | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | object | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | could | princess | object | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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