The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 91
And she could do nothing; for although the king loved her, he never let her stand in the way of his plans.
Who acts: evil, king · What happens: do, love, not let, stand, plan · To what, where: nothing, evil, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil, king), 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:pg3282:1615): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 loved | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 let | advmod |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 plans | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 plans | nmod:poss |
| 24 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 way | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | evil | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the king | evil | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not let | past | king | evil | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | infinitive | evil not said here | the way of king's plans | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location | ||||
| 5 | plan | king | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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