The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 47

She gave up playing with her sisters in the garden, ceased to gather flowers to put in her hair, and never sang when they sat together at their spinning and sewing.

Who acts: Princess, flowers · What happens: give up, play, cease, gather, put, not sing · To what, where: garden, flowers, hair, spinning

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, flowers), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sisters	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sisters	nmod:poss
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 playing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 gather	mark
14	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ceased	xcomp
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gather	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 put	mark
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 flowers	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hair	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hair	nmod:poss
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sang	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sang	cc
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 sang	advmod
24	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 sat	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sat	nsubj
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sang	advcl
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 sat	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 spinning	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 spinning	nmod:poss
31	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sewing	cc
33	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spinning	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	Princess				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	gerund	Princess not said here		the garden	with Princess's sisters	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sister=Co-Agent
3	cease	participle	Princess not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	gather	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
5	put	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	flowers not said here	Princess's hair		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hair=Destination
6	not sing speech: express	past	Princess not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sit	past	flowers = flower		flowers's spinning and sewing	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at spinning=Location
8	spin		flowers = flower				nom spinning «act 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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