The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 38

'That is a good girl,' said one; 'I really was too weak to stretch out a wing before she came.

Who acts: That, good girl, I, stepmother · What happens: be, say, stretch out, come · To what, where: good girl, one, wing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, good girl, I, stepmother), 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 girl	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 girl	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 weak	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 weak	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 weak	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	17 weak	advmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 weak	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 weak	advmod
17	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stretch	mark
19	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 weak	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretch	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wing	det
22	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretch	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stretch	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good girl		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a good girl	one		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	is	past	I		weak property	tree rules
4	stretch out	to-infinitive	I not said here	a wing		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	come	past	stepmother			vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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