The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 7

The mother was miserable, and did nothing but weep, but she dared not say anything.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: nothing, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 miserable	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 miserable	cop
4	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 miserable	parataxis
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 did	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 weep	cc
10	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
14	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dared	advmod
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 miserable	conj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 say	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 miserable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mother		miserable property	tree rules
2	do	past		nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	mother	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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