Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 6
She did nothing but sit down all day with her hands in her lap.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: do, sit down · To what, where: nothing, lap
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sit | cc |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sit | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sit | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lap | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lap | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | daughter | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sit down | infinitive | daughter not said here | daughter's lap | day | with daughter's hands | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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