The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 7

Now, when the time came round for the old woman to set out on one of these journeys, she gave each maiden work for six days, with the usual warning: “Children, don’t let your eyes wander, and on no account speak to a man, for, if you do, your thread will lose its brightness, and misfortunes of all kinds will follow.”

Who acts: time, thread, Children, eyes, you, misfortunes · What happens: come round, set out, give, not let, wander, speak · To what, where: maiden work, account, brightness · 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 (time, thread, Children, eyes), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 woman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 set	mark
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 set	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 journeys	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 journeys	det
19	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 work	det
24	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 work	amod
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warning	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 warning	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 warning	det
32	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 warning	amod
33	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Children	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 Children	punct
36	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warning	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
38	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 let	aux
39	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 let	advmod
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Children	acl:relcl
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wander	nsubj
43	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 let	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 speak	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 speak	cc
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 account	case
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 account	det
48	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 speak	obl
49	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 man	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 man	det
52	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 speak	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 do	punct
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 do	mark
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 do	punct
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 do	mark
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 do	nsubj
58	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 lose	punct
60	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 thread	nmod:poss
61	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 lose	nsubj
62	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 lose	aux
63	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
64	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 brightness	nmod:poss
65	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 lose	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 follow	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 follow	cc
68	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 follow	nsubj
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 kinds	case
70	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	71 kinds	det
71	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 misfortunes	nmod
72	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 follow	aux
73	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	parataxis
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	73 follow	punct
75	”	"	PUNCT	_	73 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	past	the time			now	for the old woman; round property	tree rules
2	set out	to-infinitive	the time not said here				on one of this journeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	thread	each maiden work		day	with the usual warning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4	not let in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Children not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	wander in a quote	present	your eyes					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	the time not said here		no account		to a man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
7	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	lose in a quote	future	your thread	work's brightness				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Eventuality
9	follow in a quote	future	misfortunes of all kinds					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP 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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