The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 89

She told her daughter what she meant to do, and although the daughter could only say 'dirty creatures,' in answer, she nodded and smiled and looked well pleased.

Who acts: witch, daughter · What happens: tell, mean, do, say, nod, smile · To what, where: daughter, dirty creatures, answer · 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 (witch, 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 told	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meant	nsubj
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meant	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nodded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nodded	cc
12	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 nodded	advcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
19	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 answer	case
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 nodded	nsubj
27	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 smiled	cc
29	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nodded	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nodded	conj
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 pleased	advmod
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looked	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	witch		witch's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient what=Topic
2	mean	past	witch					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	witch not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	could	the daughter	dirty creatures		answer		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent creature=Theme in answer=Manner
5	nod	past	witch					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	smile	past	witch not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	past	witch not said here				pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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