The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 89
Not that she wants them for herself, but they are sometimes useful to her in punishing her victims.
Who acts: Fairy, steps · What happens: not want, be, punish · To what, where: steps, Fairy, victims
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, 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:pg3027:1755): 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wants | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 wants | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wants | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 wants | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 useful | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 useful | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 useful | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 useful | cop |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 useful | advmod |
| 13 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wants | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 useful | obl |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 punishing | mark |
| 17 | punishing | punish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 useful | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 victims | nmod:poss |
| 19 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 punishing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present | Fairy | steps = step | for Fairy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | steps = step | Fairy | sometimes, useful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | punish | gerund | steps = step not said here | Fairy's victims | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=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: «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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