The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 69

‘I am only a poor girl,’ she answered, ‘and am rinsing out my yarn in the river.’

Who acts: I, poor girl, my · What happens: be, answer, rinse out, yarn · To what, where: poor girl, ‘, yarn, river

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, poor girl, my), 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 girl	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 girl	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rinsing	cc
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rinsing	aux
16	rinsing	rinse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 answered	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 rinsing	compound:prt
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 yarn	nmod:poss
19	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rinsing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rinsing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a poor girl		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a poor girl	‘		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ‘=Eventuality
3	rinse out	present · progressive	a poor girl not said here	my yarn	the river	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent yarn=Source
4	yarn		my			nom yarn «communication intransitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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