The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 10

‘Yes, I will wash you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and began to wash and scrub the ugly face, but she couldn’t help thinking that it was a very unpleasant piece of work.

Who acts: I, girl, face · What happens: wash, say, begin, scrub, not help, think · To what, where: you, ugly face, unpleasant piece · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, face), 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	_	6 wash	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 wash	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wash	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wash	aux
6	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wash	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 pleasure	case
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wash	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wash	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wash	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wash	mark
19	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scrub	cc
21	scrub	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wash	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scrub	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 help	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 help	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 help	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 help	advmod
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wash	conj
31	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 help	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 piece	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 piece	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 piece	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 piece	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 unpleasant	advmod
37	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 piece	amod
38	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thinking	ccomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 work	case
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 piece	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wash	future	I	you	with pleasure	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with pleasure=Instrument
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	the girl not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wash	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scrub	infinitive	the girl not said here	the ugly face		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source
6	not help	could	girl			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	girl not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	face	a unpleasant piece	of work	tree rules

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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