The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 73
Yet not a stone, because he wouldn’t wrap a dirty stone in his nice clean cloth.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: not wrap · To what, where: dirty stone, nice clean cloth
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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:pg3454:1386): 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 stone | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stone | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrap | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrap | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrap | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrap | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wrap | advmod |
| 10 | wrap | wrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stone | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 12 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrap | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cloth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cloth | amod |
| 17 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cloth | amod |
| 18 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrap | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wrap | would | Moti | a dirty stone | Moti's nice clean cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in cloth=Destination |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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