The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 5

The thread had to be fine and even, and when done was locked up in a secret chamber by the old woman, who twice or thrice every summer went a journey.

Who acts: thread, old woman, summer · What happens: have, be, do, lock up, go · To what, where: secret chamber, journey

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 (thread, old woman, summer), 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 thread	det
2	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 fine	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 even	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	6 fine	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 locked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 locked	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 locked	advcl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 locked	aux:pass
14	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 locked	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 chamber	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chamber	det
18	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chamber	amod
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 locked	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 locked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thrice	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 thrice	nsubj
26	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 thrice	advmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 thrice	cc
28	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	conj
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 summer	det
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thrice	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 journey	det
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the thread				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	the thread not said here			fine property	tree rules
3	do	participle	the old woman not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lock up	past · passive	the old woman		a secret chamber		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	go	past	every summer	a journey			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=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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