Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 37

But the lazy girl answered, ‘Do you think I am going to dirty my hands for you?’ and walked on.

Who acts: lazy girl, you, I · What happens: answer, think, go, dirty, walk on · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 girl, you, I), 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 girl	det
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
8	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 think	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dirty	mark
15	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dirty	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 dirty	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 walked	cc
23	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
24	on	on	ADV	_	23 walked	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the lazy girl			tree rules
2	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dirty	to-infinitive	I not said here	my hands	for you	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	walk on	past	the lazy girl not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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