The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 19

The old woman counselled her to go to the mill-pond the next full moon and play upon a golden flute, and then to lay the flute on the bank.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: counsell, go, play, lay · To what, where: wife, next full moon, mill pond, flute, bank

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counselled	nsubj
4	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 counselled	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 counselled	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pond	det
10	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pond	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mill	punct
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moon	amod
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moon	amod
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 flute	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flute	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flute	amod
22	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lay	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 lay	mark
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 counselled	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flute	det
29	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 bank	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bank	det
32	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 counselled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	counsell	past	the old woman	wife				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the next full moon	the mill pond			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
3	play	infinitive	the old woman not said here				upon a golden flute	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the flute	the bank	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme on bank=Destination

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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