The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 148

There is a beggar-girl sitting outside the window, and I’ll be bound that she can wash better than any of you!

Who acts: beggar girl, girl · What happens: be, sit, bind, wash · To what, where: window, I

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 (beggar girl, girl), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 beggar	punct
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 girl	acl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bound	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bound	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bound	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bound	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bound	aux:pass
16	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wash	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wash	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wash	aux
20	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bound	advcl
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 wash	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 any	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 better	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 any	nmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a beggar girl		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	gerund	a beggar girl not said here		the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside window=Location
3	bind	future · passive		I			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	wash	can	girl			good property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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