The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 16

Anything, however foolish, was good enough for this, and one day, when she could think of nothing better, she set both the girls to spin while sitting on the low wall of the well.

Who acts: Anything, woman · What happens: be, think, set, spin, sit · To what, where: girls, low wall

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anything, woman), 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	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 good	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foolish	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	4 foolish	advmod
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Anything	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Anything	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 good	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 think	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 good	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 nothing	case
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 think	obl
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 nothing	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 think	conj
26	both	both	CCONJ	_	28 girls	cc:preconj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girls	det
28	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 set	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 spin	mark
30	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 set	advcl
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 sitting	mark
32	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 spin	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 wall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wall	det
35	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wall	amod
36	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 well	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 well	det
39	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wall	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Anything			for this; enough, good property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	could	woman			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	past	woman	the girls			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient girl=Result
4	spin	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	gerund	woman not said here		the low wall of the well		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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