The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 80

Her distaff turned of itself and her spindle span by itself and the flax wound itself off; and however much she might use there was always plenty left.

Who acts: distaff, girl, plenty · What happens: turn, use, be, leave · To what, where: plenty

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distaff, girl, plenty), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 distaff	nmod:poss
2	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 span	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 span	nmod:poss
8	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 span	compound
9	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 itself	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 span	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wound	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wound	det
14	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wound	compound
15	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 span	conj
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	15 wound	nmod:unmarked
17	off	off	ADP	_	15 wound	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
20	however	however	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	24 use	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 use	aux
24	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 use	ccomp
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 was	advmod
28	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 plenty	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	girl's distaff			of distaff	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of itself=Trajectory
2	use	might	girl				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	be	past	plenty		there	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	participle		plenty not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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