The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 39
But the good-for-nothing girl answered:
Who acts: good nothing girl · What happens: answer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (good nothing 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 for | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 girl | compound |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the good nothing girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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 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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