The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 51

She could speak to no one, and she had no wish to laugh, so she sat there, looking only at her work.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: speak, have, laugh, sit, look, work · To what, where: one, wish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 wish	det
12	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 laugh	mark
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sat	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sat	advcl
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 work	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 work	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	maiden		no one			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent
2	have	past	maiden	no wish				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
3	laugh	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	no wish not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	maiden			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund	maiden not said here				at maiden's work	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme
6	work		maiden					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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