The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 23

No one but a true Princess could be so sensitive.

Who acts: one · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sensitive	nsubj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Princess	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princess	amod
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sensitive	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sensitive	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sensitive	advmod
10	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sensitive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	no one but a true Princess					sensitive property	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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