The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 39

'Dirty creatures! dirty creatures!' answered the daughter; and the mother wrung her hands and wept, as she knew that all her plans had failed.

Who acts: Dirty creatures, mother, plans · What happens: answer, wring, weep, know, fail, plan · To what, where: daughter, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dirty creatures, mother, plans), 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	_	3 creatures	punct
2	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creatures	amod
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 answered	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 creatures	punct
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 creatures	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 creatures	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 creatures	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wrung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrung	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrung	nsubj
16	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrung	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrung	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrung	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 failed	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 plans	det:predet
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 plans	nmod:poss
28	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 failed	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 failed	aux
30	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 knew	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Dirty creatures and dirty creatures		the daughter	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality
2	wring	past	the mother	mother's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	weep	past	the mother not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past	mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fail	past · perfect	mother's plans			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	plan		mother			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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