The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 72
But she sat quietly sewing at the shirts and troubling herself about nothing.
Who acts: mother · What happens: sit, sew, trouble · To what, where: shirts, mother
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 (mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 shirts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shirts | det |
| 8 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sewing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 troubling | cc |
| 10 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sewing | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 troubling | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 troubling | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | mother | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | mother not said here | the shirts | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at shirt=Destination | ||||
| 3 | trouble | gerund | mother not said here | mother | about nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
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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