The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 70

Then she set to work, cutting out and sewing as best she could, and by the end of six days she had turned it into an elegant robe with a long train and a mantle.

Who acts: Signy · What happens: set, work, cut out, sew, turn · To what, where: best, end, elegant robe

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cutting	punct
7	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 work	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 cutting	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sewing	cc
10	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cutting	conj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 best	advmod
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 sewing	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 could	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 best	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 end	nmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	aux
25	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 set	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 robe	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 robe	det
29	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 robe	amod
30	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 train	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 train	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 train	amod
34	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 robe	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mantle	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mantle	det
37	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 train	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set	past	Signy			then	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Signy not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut out	gerund	Signy not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	sew	gerund	Signy not said here	best			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Product
5	turn	past · perfect	Signy	end	a elegant robe with a long train and a mantle	by the end of six days	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by end=Source into robe=Trajectory

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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