English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 32

But the girl didn't like to, till her stepmother said “Lift it up this instant, you hussy!

Who acts: girl, stepmother, you · What happens: not like, say, lift up, hussy · To what, where: World · 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 (girl, stepmother, you), 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	_	6 like	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	6 like	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stepmother	nmod:poss
11	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Lift	punct
14	Lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Lift	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 Lift	compound:prt
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 instant	det
18	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Lift	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hussy	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hussy	nsubj
21	hussy	hussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Lift	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the girl			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: express	past	girl's stepmother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lift up in a quote	infinitive		World	this instant obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hussy in a quote		you			tree rules

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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