The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 24

I am not a fish at all, but a girl; at least I was a girl a few minutes ago, only--' And she ducked her head under the waves so that they should not see her crying.

Who acts: I, power, waves · What happens: not be, be, duck, not see, cry · To what, where: fish, all, girl, least, head, waves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, power, waves), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fish	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fish	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 girl	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 girl	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 least	case
14	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 girl	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 girl	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 girl	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 minutes	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 minutes	amod
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	18 girl	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 only	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	18 girl	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 girl	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 girl	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 ducked	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ducked	nsubj
29	ducked	duck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ducked	obj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 waves	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waves	det
34	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ducked	obl
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 see	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 see	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 see	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 see	advmod
40	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ducked	advcl
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 crying	obj
42	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 see	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a fish	all		tree rules
2	is a	past	I	a girl	least	ago property	tree rules
3	duck	past	power	power's head	the waves		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent head=Location
4	not see	should	waves = wave				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	cry speech: express	gerund		power			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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