The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 28

And, so saying, she set the girl down to spin yarn, and she gave the boy a sieve in which to carry water from the well, and she herself went out into the wood.

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, set down, spin, give, carry, go out · To what, where: girl, yarn, sieve, boy, water, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saying	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 saying	advmod
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
10	down	down	ADV	_	7 set	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 spin	mark
12	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 set	advcl
13	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spin	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sieve	det
21	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 carry	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 carry	mark
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sieve	acl:relcl
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 well	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 well	det
29	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 she	conj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	conj
35	out	out	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 wood	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wood	det
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	set down	past	mother	the girl			down property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient girl=Result
3	spin	to-infinitive	mother not said here	yarn				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme
4	give	past	mother	a sieve	the boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient sieve=Theme
5	carry	to-infinitive	mother not said here	water		a sieve	from the well	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
6	go out	past	mother			the wood	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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