The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 40

‘A pretty joke, indeed; just as if I should dirty my hands for you!’

Who acts: I · What happens: dirty · To what, where: hands

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 (I), 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	_	4 joke	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 joke	amod
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 indeed	punct
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 joke	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 dirty	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	13 dirty	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 dirty	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 as	fixed
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 dirty	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dirty	aux
13	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 joke	parataxis
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dirty	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 dirty	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 joke	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 joke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dirty	should	I	my hands				for you	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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