More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 9

"Ah!" said the girl, "I should be spinning too, but it's all to no purpose.

Who acts: girl, thread · What happens: say, spin, be · 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, thread), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spinning	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 spinning	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 spinning	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 spinning	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 spinning	aux
13	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 spinning	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 purpose	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 purpose	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 purpose	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 purpose	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 purpose	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 purpose	det
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spinning	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	spin in a quote	should · progressive	the girl = girl		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	thread	to no purpose; all 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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