The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 80

It did not take them long to weave the tops of the willows into a basket, and they were just going to wade into the water and pull up the bulrush roots when a youth suddenly called out: “After all, why should we waste our time in doing work that is only fit for women and children?

Who acts: It, people, all, work · What happens: not take, weave, go, wade, pull up, call out · To what, where: people, tops, basket, water, bulrush roots, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, people, all, work), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 take	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 weave	mark
8	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tops	det
10	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 weave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 willows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 willows	det
13	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tops	nmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 basket	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 basket	det
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 going	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wade	mark
24	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wade	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pull	cc
29	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 pull	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roots	det
32	bulrush	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 roots	compound
33	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pull	obj
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 called	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 youth	det
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 called	nsubj:pass
37	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	38 called	advmod
38	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 pull	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 called	compound:prt
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 waste	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 waste	punct
42	After	after	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 waste	nsubj:outer
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 all	punct
45	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	43 all	advmod
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 waste	aux
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 waste	nsubj
48	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	parataxis
49	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 time	nmod:poss
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 waste	obj
51	in	in	SCONJ	_	52 doing	mark
52	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 waste	advcl
53	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 doing	obj
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 fit	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 fit	cop
56	only	only	ADV	_	57 fit	advmod
57	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 work	acl:relcl
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 women	case
59	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 fit	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 children	cc
61	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 women	conj
62	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	It	people			long property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute
2	weave	to-infinitive		the tops of the willows	a basket			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent top=Material into basket=Product
3	go	past · progressive	people					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wade	to-infinitive	people not said here		the water			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
5	pull up	present		the bulrush roots				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
6	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		a youth			suddenly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	waste in a quote	should	all			time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	do in a quote	gerund	all not said here	work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
9	is in a quote	present	work				for women and children; fit property	tree rules

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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