The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 71

The woman smiled and was silent, and after spinning busily for an hour more, she got up from her stoop, and began to weave as fast as she could.

Who acts: woman, wool · What happens: smile, be, spin, get up, begin, weave · To what, where: stoop

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, wool), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smiled	nsubj
3	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 silent	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smiled	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 spinning	mark
10	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 got	advcl
11	busily	busily	ADV	_	10 spinning	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 hour	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spinning	obl
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 spinning	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spinning	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 stoop	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stoop	nmod:poss
22	stoop	stoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 weave	mark
27	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 weave	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 could	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 could	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the woman not said here			silent property	tree rules
3	spin	gerund	wool not said here		hour	busily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	get up	past	wool	wool's stoop			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stoop=Destination
5	begin	past	the woman not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	weave	to-infinitive	the woman not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stoop		wool				nom stoop «act intransitive»: 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: «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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