The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 73

‘The poor woman was doing nothing.’

Who acts: poor woman · What happens: do · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman), 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 doing	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 doing	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the poor woman	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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