The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 13

‘Yes, I will brush you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and set to work with the tangled hair, and, as may be easily imagined, this too was by no means pleasant work.

Who acts: I, girl, no · What happens: brush, say, set, work, imagine, be · To what, where: you · 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, no), 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 brush	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 brush	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 brush	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 brush	aux
6	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 brush	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 pleasure	case
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brush	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brush	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 brush	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 hair	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hair	det
22	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hair	amod
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 imagined	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 imagined	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 imagined	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 imagined	mark
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 imagined	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 imagined	aux:pass
30	easily	easily	ADV	_	31 imagined	advmod
31	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 brush	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 brush	obj
34	too	too	ADV	_	38 means	advmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 means	cop
36	by	by	SCONJ	_	38 means	mark
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 means	nsubj
38	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brush	parataxis
39	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 work	amod
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 means	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brush	future	I	you	with pleasure	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Initial_Location this=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	set	infinitive				tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive			with the tangled hair	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hair=Co-Agent
5	imagine	may · passive			easily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»
6	is	past	no		mean property	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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