The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 4

The old woman kept the girls hard at work, from morning till night, spinning gold flax into yarn, and when one distaff was empty another was given them, so they had no rest.

Who acts: old woman, one distaff, woman · What happens: keep, spin, be, give, have · To what, where: girls, work, gold flax, yarn, another, rest

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 (old woman, one distaff, woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 kept	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 morning	case
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spinning	punct
16	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flax	compound
18	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spinning	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 yarn	case
20	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spinning	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 empty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 empty	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 empty	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 distaff	nummod
25	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 empty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 empty	cop
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	parataxis
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 given	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux:pass
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 empty	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 had	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the old woman	the girls	work	morning; night	hard property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme at work=Location
2	spin	gerund	the old woman not said here	gold flax	yarn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flax=Theme into yarn=Trajectory
3	is	past	one distaff				empty property	tree rules
4	give	past · passive		another				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme
5	have	past	woman	no rest				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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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