English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 22

The stepmother was fine and angry, but she said nothing at all.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, say · To what, where: nothing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 stepmother	det
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 angry	cc
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 said	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 nothing	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stepmother			fine property	tree rules
2	be		the stepmother not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	stepmother	nothing	all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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