The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 126

They were very poor, and the girls seldom left the house, as they worked all day long making veils for the ladies to wear over their faces, and every morning, when the veils were finished, the other took them over the bridge and sold them in the city.

Who acts: daughters, girls, other · What happens: be, leave, work, make, wear, finish · To what, where: house, veils, faces, morning, daughters, bridge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, girls, other), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	nsubj
9	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worked	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 worked	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worked	nsubj
16	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worked	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 worked	advmod
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 worked	advcl
21	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 making	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 ladies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ladies	det
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 making	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wear	mark
26	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 making	advcl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 faces	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 faces	nmod:poss
29	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wear	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 finished	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 finished	cc
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 finished	nsubj:pass
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 finished	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 finished	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 veils	det
37	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 finished	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 finished	aux:pass
39	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 poor	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 took	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 other	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 took	nsubj
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	parataxis
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 took	obj
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 bridge	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 bridge	det
47	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sold	cc
49	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 took	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 sold	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 city	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 city	det
53	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sold	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughters = daughter				poor property	tree rules
2	leave	past	the girls	the house			seldom property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	work	past	daughters = daughter			day	long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	gerund	daughters = daughter not said here	veils			for the ladies	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent veil=Material for lady=Beneficiary
5	wear	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here		daughters's faces			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	finish	past · passive		every morning				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
7	take	past	the other	daughters = daughter	the bridge			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	sell	past	the other not said here	daughters = daughter	the city			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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