The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 26

This time the old woman told her to go the next full moon to the mill-pond, and to spin there with a golden spinning-wheel, and then to leave the spinning-wheel on the bank.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: tell, go, spin, leave · To what, where: wife, next full moon, spinning wheel, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moon	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moon	amod
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moon	amod
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 pond	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pond	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pond	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mill	punct
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spin	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spin	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 spin	mark
22	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 spin	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 wheel	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wheel	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wheel	amod
27	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wheel	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 spinning	punct
29	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spin	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 leave	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 leave	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 leave	mark
34	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spin	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wheel	det
36	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wheel	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 spinning	punct
38	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leave	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 bank	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bank	det
41	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leave	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		wife		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the next full moon				to the mill pond	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moon=Theme
3	spin not said to happen	to-infinitive				there		with a golden spinning wheel	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	to-infinitive		the spinning wheel		the bank	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme on bank=Location

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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