The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 6

Before she went she gave out work for each day of her absence, and always returned in the night, so that the girls never saw what she brought back with her, neither would she tell them whence the gold flax came, nor what it was to be used for.

Who acts: thread, girls, gold flax · What happens: go, give out, return, not see, bring back, tell · To what, where: work, girls, flax · Speech: someone speaks here

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, girls, gold flax), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 absence	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 absence	nmod:poss
13	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 returned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 returned	cc
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 returned	advmod
17	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 returned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 saw	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 saw	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girls	det
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 saw	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 returned	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 brought	obj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
30	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	ccomp
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 brought	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
35	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 tell	cc:preconj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 saw	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	44 came	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 flax	det
42	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flax	compound
43	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 came	nsubj
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 what	punct
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	47 what	cc
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 came	obl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 used	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 used	aux
50	to	to	PART	_	52 used	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 used	aux:pass
52	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 what	acl:relcl
53	for	for	ADP	_	52 used	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	thread					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give out	past	thread	work		day		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	return	participle	thread not said here			night	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	past	the girls					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	bring back	past	thread				with her = she	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	would	thread		girls = girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	come	past	the gold flax				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	use	past · passive	the gold flax not said here	flax				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	absent		thread					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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