Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 37

But the lazy thing answered, "As if I had any wish to make myself dirty!" and on she went.

Who acts: lazy thing, thing · What happens: answer, have, make, dirty, go · To what, where: wish, lazy thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazy thing, thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	As	as	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 wish	det
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	advcl
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 make	obj
17	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 dirty	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dirty	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dirty	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	the lazy thing		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the lazy thing = thing	any wish	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
3	make in a quote	to-infinitive	the lazy thing = thing not said here	the lazy thing = thing	tree rules
4	dirty in a quote	infinitive	the lazy thing = thing not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	go	past	thing		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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