The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 69
Perhaps, this was not even the same bird.
Who acts: this · What happens: not be · To what, where: same bird
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:pg7277:2706): 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 bird | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bird | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bird | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 bird | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bird | amod |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | this | the same bird | perhaps 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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