The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 126
Must they spin gold flax for ever?
Who acts: maidens · What happens: spin · To what, where: gold flax
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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 | Must | must | CCONJ | _ | 3 spin | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spin | nsubj |
| 3 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flax | compound |
| 5 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spin | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 spin | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | maidens = maiden | gold flax | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flax=Result for ever=Beneficiary |
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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