More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 6

The girl rose, went to the good dame, and gave her a friendly greeting, but could not help inquiring "What makes you so long lipped?"

Who acts: girl, you · What happens: rise, go, give, not help, inquire, make · To what, where: good dame, friendly greeting, girl, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 dame	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dame	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dame	amod
9	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 greeting	det
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 greeting	amod
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 help	cc
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 help	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 help	advmod
21	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	parataxis
22	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 help	advcl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 makes	nsubj
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 inquiring	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 makes	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 lipped	advmod
29	lipped	lip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 makes	xcomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the girl					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the girl not said here			the good dame		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dame=Initial_Location
3	give	past	the girl not said here	a friendly greeting	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient greeting=Theme
4	not help	could						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	inquire speech: other	gerund						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make in a quote	present		you				tree rules
7	lip in a quote	participle	you not said here				long 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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