The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 174
‘That poor old woman can do no harm to anyone.
Who acts: poor old woman · What happens: do · To what, where: harm
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old woman), 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:pg540:883): 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 harm | det |
| 9 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | that poor old woman | no harm | to anyone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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