The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 3

Every day she had to sit by a well on the high road, and spin till her fingers were so sore that they often bled.

Who acts: widow, spin, fingers · What happens: have, sit, be, bleed · To what, where: high road

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, spin, fingers), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 road	amod
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sore	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sore	cc
16	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sore	nsubj
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 fingers	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fingers	nmod:poss
19	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spin	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sore	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 sore	advmod
22	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 bled	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bled	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 bled	advmod
26	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sore	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	widow		day		tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	widow not said here	the high road		by a well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location
3	is	past	spin till widow's fingers			sore property	tree rules
4	bleed	past	fingers = finger			often property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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