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title: ‘Oh, no, it is not heavy at all,’ answered the bed in which the empe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, no, it is not heavy at all,’ answered the bed in which the emperor was sleeping. Who acts: language, bed, emperor. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 60

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‘Oh, no, it is not heavy at all,’ answered the bed in which the emperor was sleeping.

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**Who acts:** language, bed, emperor · **What happens:** not be, answer, sleep · **To what, where:** all, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, bed, emperor), 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:pg641:3000`): 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:pg641:35:60
# text = ‘Oh, no, it is not heavy at all,’ answered the bed in which the emperor was sleeping.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | language |  |  | all |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the bed |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the emperor |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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