The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 6

‘I am a woman,’ she answered slowly, wiping her eyes with a leaf of the creeper that hung about her.

Who acts: I, woman, creeper · What happens: be, answer, wipe, hang · To what, where: woman, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman, creeper), 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	_	5 woman	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 woman	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 answered	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wiping	punct
12	wiping	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 answered	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wiping	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 leaf	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leaf	det
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wiping	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 creeper	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 creeper	det
20	creeper	creeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaf	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hung	nsubj
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 creeper	acl:relcl
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hung	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a woman		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	woman		slowly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wipe	gerund	woman not said here	woman's eyes	with a leaf of the creeper	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source
4	hang	past	the creeper		about woman	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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