The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 143

“Ah! you can’t wash at all,” said the old troll-hag, who was her mother.

Who acts: you, old troll hag · What happens: not wash, say, be · To what, where: all, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old troll hag), 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	_	7 wash	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 wash	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wash	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wash	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wash	advmod
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wash	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wash	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 wash	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hag	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hag	amod
15	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hag	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 troll	punct
17	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 mother	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mother	cop
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hag	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not wash in a quote	can	you		all	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at all=Source
2	say speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	the old troll hag and princess's mother	princess's mother		tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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