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title: Yet not a stone, because he wouldn’t wrap a dirty stone in his nice… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet not a stone, because he wouldn’t wrap a dirty stone in his nice clean cloth. Who acts: Moti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 73

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Yet not a stone, because he wouldn’t wrap a dirty stone in his nice clean cloth.

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**Who acts:** Moti · **What happens:** not wrap · **To what, where:** dirty stone, nice clean cloth

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:15:73
# text = Yet not a stone, because he wouldn’t wrap a dirty stone in his nice clean cloth.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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