More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 2

The girl saw her mother was in earnest, so she plied her distaff as well as she could; but her hands were all untaught, and by the evening of the second day only a very small part of her task was done.

Who acts: girl, mother, task · What happens: see, be, ply, unteach, task · To what, where: distaff, hands

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mother, task), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earnest	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 earnest	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 earnest	case
8	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 saw	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plied	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 plied	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plied	nsubj
12	plied	ply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 distaff	nmod:poss
14	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plied	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 plied	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 well	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 untaught	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 untaught	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 untaught	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 untaught	aux:pass
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 untaught	advmod
26	untaught	unteach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 evening	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 evening	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 evening	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 untaught	obl:unmarked
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 day	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
34	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 day	amod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 evening	nmod
36	only	only	ADV	_	40 part	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 part	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 small	advmod
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 part	amod
40	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 untaught	advcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 done	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 task	nmod:poss
43	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 done	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 done	cop
45	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 part	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	girl's mother			earn property	tree rules
3	ply	past	girl	girl's distaff		well property	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent distaff=Recipient
4	unteach	past · passive		girl's hands	evening	all property	tree rules
5	is	past	girl's task			done property	tree rules
6	task		girl				nom task «act transitive»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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