The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 24

One evening, when she was spinning flax, and had worked her little white hands weary, she heard a rustling beside her and a cry of joy.

Who acts: Princess, joy · What happens: spin, work, hear, cry · To what, where: flax, little white hands, rustling

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, joy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 spinning	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spinning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spinning	aux
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worked	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worked	aux
12	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 spinning	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 worked	obj
17	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 worked	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worked	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rustling	det
22	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rustling	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cry	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cry	det
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rustling	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 joy	case
29	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cry	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spinning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	Princess	flax	evening		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
2	work	past · perfect	Princess not said here	Princess's little white hands		weary property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent hand=Material
3	hear	past	Princess	a rustling and a cry of joy		beside maid	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus
4	cry		joy				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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