The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 52

All day long she sat in her chair nodding her head and never saying a word.

Who acts: mother, chair · What happens: sit, nod, not say · To what, where: chair, head, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, chair), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 day	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chair	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chair	nmod:poss
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 chair	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nodding	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saying	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 saying	advmod
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	mother		mother's chair	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	nod	gerund	mother's chair not said here	mother's head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	not say speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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 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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