The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 18

She had no rest now till she had found out where the King guarded the reel, and then she made some little white shirts, and, as she had learnt from her witch-mother, sewed an enchantment in each of them.

Who acts: queen, King · What happens: have, find out, guard, make, learn, sew · To what, where: rest, reel, little white shirts, enchantment, each

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, King), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 found	compound:prt
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 guarded	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 guarded	nsubj
14	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reel	det
16	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guarded	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 made	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 shirts	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shirts	amod
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shirts	amod
25	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 learnt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 learnt	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 learnt	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 learnt	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 learnt	aux
32	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 made	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	37 mother	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mother	nmod:poss
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mother	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 witch	punct
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 learnt	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sewed	punct
39	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 enchantment	det
41	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sewed	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 each	case
43	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 sewed	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 each	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	queen	no rest		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
2	find out	past · perfect	queen					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	guard	past	the King	the reel				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reel=Beneficiary
4	make	past	queen	some little white shirts		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product
5	learn	past · perfect	queen				from queen's witch mother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from mother=Source
6	sew	past	queen not said here	a enchantment	each			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme in each=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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