The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 31

The maiden now went home and worked hard all day at winding up the yarn her elder sisters had spun, for the old woman would let her spin no longer.

Who acts: maiden, yarn, old woman, thread · What happens: go, work, wind up, spin, let · To what, where: yarn, elder sisters, thread

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 (maiden, yarn, old woman, thread), 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 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worked	cc
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 worked	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	obl:unmarked
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 winding	mark
12	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 worked	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 winding	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yarn	det
15	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 winding	obj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sisters	nmod:poss
17	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sisters	compound
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spun	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spun	aux
20	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 yarn	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 worked	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 spin	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the maiden		now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	past	the maiden not said here		day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wind up	gerund	the maiden not said here	the yarn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme
4	spin	past · perfect · passive	the yarn not said here	thread's elder sisters			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result
5	let	would	the old woman	thread			tree rules
6	spin	infinitive	thread not said here			long property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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