Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 67

‘Because, instead of doing any good, she does nothing but tease me all day long.’

Who acts: girl · What happens: do, tease · To what, where: any, nothing, me

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	_	6 doing	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 doing	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 doing	obj
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 any	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 does	nsubj
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	advcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 does	obj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tease	cc
14	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 does	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tease	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tease	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 tease	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		any			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
2	do	present	girl	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	tease	infinitive	girl not said here	me	day	long property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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