The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 194

When the girl was brought to him he led her into a room full of straw, gave her a spinning-wheel and spindle, and said: “Now set to work and spin all night till early dawn, and if by that time you haven’t spun the straw into gold you shall die.”

Who acts: miller, you · What happens: bring, lead, give, say, set, work · To what, where: girl, miller, room, spinning wheel, you, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux:pass
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 led	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 straw	case
16	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 led	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wheel	det
21	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wheel	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 spinning	punct
23	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spindle	cc
25	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wheel	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 set	advmod
32	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 said	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 work	mark
34	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 set	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 spin	cc
36	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 work	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spin	obl:unmarked
39	till	till	ADP	_	41 dawn	case
40	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dawn	amod
41	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spin	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 spun	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 spun	cc
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 spun	mark
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 time	case
46	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 time	det
47	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spun	obl
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 spun	nsubj:pass
49	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 spun	aux
50	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 spun	advmod
51	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 led	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 straw	det
53	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spun	obj
54	into	into	ADP	_	55 gold	case
55	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spun	obl
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 die	nsubj
57	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 die	aux
58	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 gold	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 spun	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	51 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		the girl	miller			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
2	lead	past	miller	girl		a room		tree rules
3	give	past		a spinning wheel and spindle	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wheel=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set in a quote	participle					now	tree rules
6	work in a quote	to-infinitive						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	spin in a quote	infinitive					dawn; night	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	not spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you		gold	time	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme straw=Result
9	die in a quote	shall	you	gold not said here				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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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