The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 27

The hunter’s wife did as she was advised, and the first night the moon was full she sat and spun with a golden spinning-wheel, and then left the wheel on the bank.

Who acts: wife, first night · What happens: do, advise, be, sit, spin, leave · To what, where: wife, wheel, 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 (wife, first night), 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	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 hunter	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 advised	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 advised	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 advised	aux:pass
9	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 full	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 advised	parataxis
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spun	cc
22	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 full	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	28 wheel	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wheel	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wheel	amod
26	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wheel	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 spinning	punct
28	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spun	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 left	advmod
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wheel	det
34	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 bank	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bank	det
37	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the hunter's wife					tree rules
2	advise speech: other	past · passive		wife				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	the first night				full property	tree rules
4	sit	past	wife					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spin	participle	the first night not said here				with a golden spinning wheel	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	past	the hunter's wife not said here	the 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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